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{{Short description|American football player (1948–2025)}}
{{for|the English cricketer|Mark Lomas (cricketer)}}
{{Use American English|date=June 2025}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=June 2024}}
{{Infobox NFL biography
| image =
| position = [[Defensive end]] <br> [[Defensive tackle]]
| number = 84
| birth_date = {{birth date|1948|6|8}}
| birth_place = [[Los Angeles, California]], U.S.
| death_date = {{death date and age|2025|6|4|1948|6|8}}
| height_ft = 6
| weight_lb = 250
| height_in = 4
| draftyear = 1970
| draftround = 8
| draftpick = 202
| high_school = [[Garden Grove High School|Garden Grove]] {{avoid wrap|([[Garden Grove, California]])}}
| college = [[Northern Arizona Lumberjacks football|Northern Arizona]]
| pastteams =
* [[New York Jets]] ({{NFL Year|1970|1976}})
| statlabel1 = Games played
| statvalue1 = 67
| statlabel2 = Games [[Starting lineup|started]]
| statvalue2 = 61
| statlabel3 = [[Fumble|Fumble recoveries]]
| statvalue3 = 4
| pfr = LomaMa20
|statlabel4=Sacks|statvalue4=31}}

'''Mark Arnold Lomas''' (June 8, 1948 – June 4, 2025) was an American professional [[American football|football]] player who was a [[defensive lineman]] for five seasons with the [[New York Jets]] of the [[National Football League]] (NFL). He played [[college football]] for the [[Northern Arizona Lumberjacks football|Northern Arizona Lumberjacks]].

== College career ==
Lomas played high school football at [[Garden Grove High School]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Football History |url=https://www.gghs.us/apps/pages/index.jsp?uREC_ID=1564217&type=d&pREC_ID=1693638 |access-date=2025-06-12 |website=www.gghs.us |language=en}}</ref> and then started college at [[Golden West College|Golden West Junior College]] before transferring to [[Northern Arizona University]] where he played two seasons for the [[Northern Arizona Lumberjacks|Lumberjacks]]. He was an honorable mention small college All-American.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last= |url=http://archive.org/details/jets-1971-media-guide-new-york-c |title=New York Jets 1971 Media Guide |date=}}</ref>

== Professional career ==
The Jets selected Lomas in the eighth round of the [[1970 NFL draft|1970 NFL Draft]]. As a rookie, Lomas started all 14 games for the Jets, beginning the season at [[Defensive line|left end]] and then shifting inside to tackle for the final 10 games of the season.<ref name=":0" /> Lomas' first game with the Jets, a 31-21 loss to the [[Cleveland Browns]], happened to be the first ever [[Monday Night Football]] broadcast.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |title=Where Are They Now: Mark Lomas |url=https://www.newyorkjets.com/news/where-are-they-now-mark-lomas |access-date=2025-06-11 |website=www.newyorkjets.com |language=en-US}}</ref>

Lomas again started all 14 games in 1971, this time at right end,<ref name=":1" /> and shared the team's Heede Award (along with [[John Little (American football)|John Little]]) as the Jets most improved and dedicated defensive player.<ref name=":2">{{Cite book |last= |url=http://archive.org/details/jets-1973-media-guide-new-york-b |title=New York Jets 1973 Media Guide |date=}}</ref> Lomas was again the starting right end in 1973 and was credited with sacking legendary [[Baltimore Colts]] quarterback [[Johnny Unitas]] three times in the Jets' Week 2 victory and then recovering a key fumble to set up a touchdown when the rivals met again in Week 12.<ref name=":2" />

In 1974, Lomas for the first time in his professional career did not play in every Jets game after suffering an [[Achilles tendon]] injury in a Week 11 victory over the [[Miami Dolphins]].<ref name=":3">{{Cite book |last= |url=http://archive.org/details/jets-1975-media-guide-new-york-c |title=New York Jets 1975 Media Guide |date=}}</ref> Even playing an abbreviated season, he was credited with leading the team in sacks for the third-straight season.<ref name=":3" /> That Dolphins game would prove to be his last regular season action in the NFL,<ref name=":1" /> as Lomas missed the entire 1975 season rehabbing after aggravating the injury playing tennis in the offseason.<ref name=":3" /> Lomas attempted a comeback in 1976, but he broke his leg in the Jets' first preseason game, ending his NFL career.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Eskenazi |first=Gerald |date=1976-08-02 |title=Mark Lomas, an Injured Jet, Fears for His Career |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1976/08/02/archives/mark-lomas-an-injured-jet-fears-for-his-career-lomas-has-surgery.html |access-date=2025-06-12 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> <ref name=":1" />

== Personal life ==
During his playing career, Lomas worked as a substitute teacher in the offseason.<ref>{{Cite book |last= |url=http://archive.org/details/jets-1974-media-guide-new-york-c |title=New York Jets 1974 Media Guide |date=}}</ref> Following his retirement, Lomas sold mobile cranes in Southern California, eventually opening his own business, CranesBoomAndJib.com.<ref name=":1" />

Lomas was inducted in the Northern Arizona University Athletics Hall of Fame in 1981.<ref>{{Cite web |title=1981 NAU Athletics Hall of Fame Class Mark Lomas (Football, 1968-69) |url=https://nauathletics.com/sports/2017/6/6/1981-nau-athletics-hall-of-fame-class-mark-lomas-football-1968-69 |access-date=2025-06-12 |website=Northern Arizona University Athletics |language=en}}</ref>

Lomas died on June 4, 2025, aged 76.<ref>[https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/oakhurst-ca/mark-lomas-12405461 Mark Arnold Lomas]</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20090516091633/http://www.newyorkjets.com/team/all_time/player/470-mark-lomas Bio from 1974 Jets yearbook]

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[[Category:1948 births]]
[[Category:2025 deaths]]
[[Category:Players of American football from Los Angeles]]
[[Category:American football defensive ends]]
[[Category:American football defensive tackles]]
[[Category:Northern Arizona Lumberjacks football players]]
[[Category:New York Jets players]]
[[Category:20th-century American sportsmen]]

Mark Lomas - Revision history

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