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First NFL Interception Return for a Touchdown Mack turned in a phenomenal season in 2016. Alongwith seventy-three tackles and eleven quarterback sacks, he helped the Raiders to their first double-digit victory season (twelve wins) and their first playoffappearance in fourteen years. Thehighlight of his seasonwas an interception hemade in a game against the Carolina Panthers. Mack reached up in the air to pull down a CamNewton pass and returned it six yards (5.49m) for a touchdown. It was the first touchdown he scored in his NFL career (hewould go on to intercept a pass thrown

by DeShone Kizer of theGreenBayPackers in a September 9, 2018, Monday Night Football game, for a twenty-seven yard— 24.69m—touchdown). Through the 2018 season,Mackhadonly thosetwointerceptions inhis NFL career, both of which he returned for TD (touchdown).

Mack appears in a November 27, 2016, game against the Carolina Panthers where he intercepted a Cam Newton pass for a six-yard touchdown.

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