Mark Dixon (gridiron football)

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Mark Keller Dixon (born November 26, 1970) is a former American football guard who played in the NFL and CFL in the 1990s and early 2000s. Born in Charlottesville, Virginia, he grew up in Jamestown, North Carolina, and attended Ragsdale High School. He played college football at the University of Virginia from 1990 to 1993, earning consensus All-American honors in 1993 and first-team All-ACC that year (second-team All-ACC in 1992). At 6'4" and 295 pounds, Dixon wore numbers 68, 64, and 63 during his pro career, and Virginia later retired his jersey number 66.

Dixon went undrafted in 1994 because of injuries but signed with the Philadelphia Eagles. He did not play in the regular season and soon joined NFL Europe, playing for Frankfurt Galaxy in 1995. He then played in the CFL for the Baltimore Stallions (1995) and the Montreal Alouettes (1996–1997). In 1998 he signed with the Miami Dolphins, where he started 60 of 62 regular-season games from 1998 to 2003.

After his playing days, Dixon became a high school coach. He led Galax High School’s Galax Maroon Tide to its first state football championship in 2015, resigned in 2017 but briefly returned, and then left in 2020 to become head coach at Pulaski County High School in Dublin, Virginia.