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Former Green Bay Packers Pro Bowler Has Died At 75

By Daniel Bates The Green Bay Packers said goodbye to an accomplished middle linebacker on Monday. Per the team, Jim Carter, who succeeded Ray Nitschke in Green Bay's front seven, passed away at the age of 75 after a long fought cancer battle. Carter was a third-round draft pick of the Packers in 1970 and spent the entirety of his nine-year career in Titletown. A hard-nosed tackler, Carter quietly went about his business as a Pro Bowl-level defender and was one of just three Packers inside backers to receive the honor between he, Nitschke and A.J. Hawk. Unfortunately, replacing a legend of Nit…