Q:Tiger Greene (born February 15 1962 in Hendersonville North Carolina) is a former safety in the NFL. He played for the Atlanta Falcons and Green Bay Packers.Tiger was very good at blocking punts. Tiger is now a police officer in Metro Atlanta Georgia. Given a list of categories: company, educational institution, artist, athlete, office holder, mean of transportation, building, natural place, village, animal, plant, album, film or written work, what category does the paragraph belong to?
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Athlete