Mark Andrew Thomas (born May 6, 1969 in Lilburn, Georgia) is an American football defensive end who played nine seasons in the National Football League for the San Francisco 49ers, the Carolina Panthers, the Chicago Bears, and the Indianapolis Colts. He played college football at North Carolina State University and was selected in the fourth round of the 1992 NFL Draft. He is not the Mark Thomas who is a sports talk cohost (with Mike Maniscalco) on a radio station based in Raleigh, North Carolina.[1][2]