No. 58 – Seattle Seahawks | |||||
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Position: | Linebacker | ||||
Personal information | |||||
Born: | Gulfport, Mississippi, U.S. | March 19, 2001||||
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 | ||||
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Career NFL statistics as of 2023 | |||||
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Player stats at PFR |
Derick Hall (born March 19, 2001) is an American football linebacker for the Seattle Seahawks of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Auburn.
Hall was born on March 19, 2001, in Gulfport, 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 on life support. [3] [1] [2] Believing that he would likely be a in a permanent 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 playing flag football when he was 4, and tackle football when he was 9. [3] [2] He attended Gulfport High School where he played both offense and defense. [3] Coming out of high school, he was a four-star prospect by Rivals.com, [4] the 147th overall recruit and the 8th ranked weakside defensive end. He committed to play college football at Auburn University over Mississippi State and Ole Miss, citing his relationship with Auburn assistant coach Rodney Garner as the reason for his commitment. [5] [3]
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]
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 | ||
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6 ft 2+3⁄4 in (1.90 m) | 254 lb (115 kg) | 34+1⁄2 in (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 the Seattle Seahawks with the 37th pick in the second round of the 2023 NFL draft, a pick that they previously acquired in the trade that sent Russell Wilson to the Denver Broncos in the 2022 offseason. [12]
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