{{Short description|American football player (born 1975)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=June 2024}} {{Infobox NFL biography |name=Dameon Porter |image= |caption= |current_team= |number=1<ref name="pfa">{{cite web | url=https://www.profootballarchives.com/players/p/port00288.html | title=Dameon Porter | publisher=Pro Football Archives | accessdate=15 July 2025}}</ref> |position=Wide receiver/Defensive back |birth_date={{birth date and age|May 21, 1975}} |birth_place=Los Angeles, California, U.S. |height_ft=6 |height_in=1 |weight_lbs=180 |high_school=Crenshaw (Los Angeles) |college=Wayne State |undraftedyear=1998 |pastteams= * Iowa Barnstormers ({{AFL Year|1998}}–{{AFL Year|1999}}) * New Jersey Red Dogs ({{AFL Year|2000}}) * Chicago Rush ({{AFL Year|2001}}) * Detroit Fury ({{AFL Year|2002}}) * Chicago Rush ({{AFL Year|2003}}) * Georgia Force ({{AFL Year|2004}}) * Austin Wranglers ({{AFL Year|2004}}) * Las Vegas Gladiators ({{AFL Year|2005}}–{{AFL Year|2006}}) * Grand Rapids Rampage ({{AFL Year|2006}}) |highlights= * 2× First-team All-Arena (2001, 2002) * AFL Ironman of the Year Team (2001) * 2× AFL All-Ironman Team (2001, 2002) * AFL Breakout Player of the Year (2001) |afl=2099 }} '''Dameon Porter''' (born May 21, 1975) is an American former professional football wide receiver/defensive back who played in the Arena Football League (AFL).
==Early life== Porter first played college football at El Camino College and Palomar College. He then transferred to play at Wayne State College in Wayne, Nebraska from 1996 to 1997.<ref name="pfa"/>
==Career== He played for the Iowa Barnstormers (1998–1999), the New Jersey Red Dogs (2000), the Chicago Rush (2001–2003), the Georgia Force (2004), the Austin Wranglers (2004), the Las Vegas Gladiators (2005–2006), the Grand Rapids Rampage (2006).
Porter led the Arena Football League in interceptions in back-to-back seasons from 2001 and 2002. Porter picked off 12 passes in 2001 and recorded 10 more in 2002. In Week 4 of the 2003 Arena Football League season, Porter made a clutch interception against the Los Angeles Avengers at the goal line to seal the Chicago Rush victory. The Rush entered the game 0-3 playing 3-0 Los Angeles, which gave Chicago its first win of the 2003 season while handing the Avengers their first defeat of the year.
==Awards and honors== He was named first-team All-Arena in 2001 and 2002. Porter was also named the AFL Breakout Player of the Year and the Ironman of the Year in 2001.<ref>{{cite web |title=Georgia Force help AFL stand for "All Fun League" |url=https://www.oursportscentral.com/services/releases/georgia-force-help-afl-stand-for-all-fun-league/n-2999514 |website=Our Sports Central |accessdate=21 September 2018 |date=4 February 2004}}</ref>
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==External links== *[http://www.arenafan.com/players/?page=players&player=2099 http://www.arenafan.com/players/?page=players&player=2099]
{{Arena Football League Ironman of the Year}}
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