Derick Hall
| No. 58 –Seattle Seahawks | |||||
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| Position: | Linebacker | ||||
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| Born: | March 19, 2001 Gulfport, Mississippi,U.S. | ||||
| Height: | 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) | ||||
| Weight: | 254 lb (115 kg) | ||||
| Career information | |||||
| High school: | Gulfport | ||||
| College: | Auburn(2019–2022) | ||||
| NFL draft: | 2023/ Round: 2 / Pick: 37 | ||||
| Career history | |||||
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| Roster status: | Active | ||||
| Career highlights and awards | |||||
| Career NFL statistics as of 2023 | |||||
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| Player stats atPFR | |||||
Derick Hall(born March 19, 2001) is an American professionalfootballlinebackerfor theSeattle Seahawksof theNational Football League(NFL). He playedcollege footballatAuburn.
Early life
[edit]Hall was born on March 19, 2001, inGulfport, Mississippi.He was born four months premature, and was dead at birth without a heartbeat before being resuscitated.[1][2]Weighing just 2 pounds and 1 ounce at birth, with brain bleeding, he spent a week onlife support.[3][1][2]Believing that he would likely be a in apermanent vegetative state,doctors advised his mother Stacy Gooden-Crandle to allow life support to be discontinued, but she refused.[1][2]Hall would spend five months in the NICU on a ventilator before finally going home with his family.[1][3][2]In his early years he would be frequently hospitalized and suffered from asthma.[3][1]Hall began playingflag footballwhen he was 4, and tackle football when he was 9.[3][2]He attendedGulfport High Schoolwhere he played both offense and defense.[3]Coming out of high school, he was a four-star prospect byRivals.com,[4]the 147th overall recruit and the 8th ranked weaksidedefensive end.He committed to playcollege footballatAuburn UniversityoverMississippi StateandOle Miss,citing his relationship with Auburn assistant coach Rodney Garner as the reason for his commitment.[5][3]
College career
[edit]Hall was primarily a rotational player as a freshman and sophomore, recording a total of 34 tackles and four sacks.[6]Hall became a starter as a junior, where he recorded 52 total tackles and nine sacks.[7]He was named second-team All-Southeastern Conference(SEC) in 2021 and first-team All-SEC in 2022.[8][9]
Professional career
[edit]| Height | Weight | Arm length | Hand span | 40-yard dash | 10-yard split | 20-yard split | 20-yard shuttle | Three-cone drill | Vertical jump | Broad jump | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 ft2+3⁄4in (1.90 m) |
254 lb (115 kg) |
34+1⁄2in (0.88 m) |
10 in (0.25 m) |
4.55 s | 1.59 s | 2.64 s | 4.20 s | 7.23 s | 33.5 in (0.85 m) |
10 ft 7 in (3.23 m) | ||
| Sources:[10][11] | ||||||||||||
Hall was drafted by theSeattle Seahawkswith the 37th pick in the second round of the2023 NFL draft,a pick that they previously acquired in the trade that sentRussell Wilsonto theDenver Broncosin the 2022 offseason.[12]As a rookie, he appeared in all 17 games in the 2023 season. He finished with 38 total tackles (18 solo) and one pass defended.[13]
References
[edit]- ^abcdeMarshall, Phillip (November 1, 2019)."#PMARSHONAU: Derick Hall's incredible journey to Auburn".AuburnUndercover & ITAT.RetrievedApril 29,2023.
- ^abcde"NFL 360 Presents: Derick Hall MIRACLE".www.seahawks.com.RetrievedApril 29,2023.
- ^abcdefGreen, Tom (April 11, 2023)."Road to the Pros: Derick Hall's unlikely path to becoming pride of Gulfport".al.RetrievedApril 29,2023.
- ^"Derick Hall II, 2019 Outside Linebacker, Auburn".Rivals.com.RetrievedJuly 23,2023.
- ^"Derick Hall, Gulfport, Outside Linebacker".247Sports.RetrievedOctober 16,2022.
- ^"Derick Hall College Stats, School, Draft, Gamelog, Splits".College Football at Sports-Reference.com.RetrievedJuly 23,2023.
- ^"Derick Hall Stats".ESPN.RetrievedOctober 16,2022.
- ^"2021 All-SEC Football Team Announced".SECSports.com.December 9, 2021.RetrievedOctober 16,2022.
- ^Green, Tom (December 6, 2022)."Auburn's Derick Hall makes coaches All-SEC first-team defense".AL.com.RetrievedJanuary 10,2023.
- ^"Derick Hall Draft and Combine Prospect Profile".NFL.com.RetrievedApril 13,2023.
- ^"2023 NFL Draft Scout Derick Hall College Football Profile".DraftScout.com.RetrievedApril 13,2023.
- ^Boyle, John (April 28, 2023)."Seahawks Select OLB Derick Hall With 37th Overall Pick".Seahawks.com.RetrievedMay 18,2023.
- ^"Derick Hall 2023 Game Log".Pro-Football-Reference.com.RetrievedAugust 3,2024.
External links
[edit]- Career statistics and player information fromYahoo! Sports
- Seattle Seahawks bio
- Auburn Tigers bio
- Laura Goldman (dir.),Road to the Pros: Derick Hall,AL.com via YouTube.com, May 1, 2023(video)Episode 1|Episode 2|Episode 3|Episode 4