Alcides Catanho (born January 20, 1972) is a former American football linebacker in the National Football League for the New England Patriots and the Washington Redskins. He played high school football at Elizabeth High School and college football at Rutgers University.^[1] He is married to Kara Catanho, with whom he has two children, a daughter and a son. Kara Catanho works at WWMS, a school in Edison, NJ as a health and physical education teacher.