[1] Simmons played for Green Bay for four and a half years, earning a Super Bowl ring at the end of the 1996 season.
Simmons was well known for shutting down opposing tight ends, but in doing this task extremely well he was not able to obtain the attention-grabbing statistics of quarterback sacks.
The Buffalo Bills claimed Simmons off waivers on November 19, 1998, and he played five games before being released by the team in February 1999.
In the early morning hours of August 23, 2002, Simmons was killed at the age of 32 in a single-car crash on Interstate 70 in Independence, Missouri.
Witnesses reported he was driving his Mercedes at high speed and weaving through traffic before losing control of the vehicle.