Jeff Hartings

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Jeff Hartings
Jeff Hartings on USS Buffalo.jpg
Hartings on the USS Buffalo (SSN-715) before the 2005 Pro Bowl
No. 64
Position: Center
Personal information
Born: (1972-09-07) September 7, 1972 (age 51)
St. Henry, Ohio, U.S.
Height:6 ft 3 in (1.91 m)
Weight:299 lb (136 kg)
Career information
High school: St. Henry
College: Penn State
NFL draft: 1996  / Round: 1 / Pick: 23
Career history
Career highlights and awards
Career NFL statistics
Games played:162
Games started:160
Touchdowns:1
Player stats at NFL.com  ·  PFR

Jeffrey Alan Hartings (born September 7, 1972) is an American former professional football player who was a center for 11 seasons in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Penn State Nittany Lions, earning All-American honors. A first-round pick of the Detroit Lions in the 1996 NFL draft, he played professionally for the Lions and Pittsburgh Steelers. He was a member of the Steelers' Super Bowl championship team in 2005, beating the Seattle Seahawks, and he was a two-time Pro Bowl selection. He is currently the head football coach at Worthington Christian High School. [1]

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Early years

Hartings was born in St. Henry, Ohio. He attended St. Henry High School, and was a letterwinner in football as a two-way starter and in track and field. In football, he was a two-time all-conference selection, helped lead his team to the state championship as a senior, and compiled 23 sacks and 200 tackles. After his senior season, he participated in the Ohio North-South Game. [2]

Career

College career

Hartings attended Penn State University, where he played for coach Joe Paterno's Penn State Nittany Lions football team from 1992 to 1995. He was a first-team All-American in 1994 and 1995, garnering consensus first-team honors in 1995. He graduated from Penn State with a Bachelor of Science degree in marketing in 1995 and was twice honored as an Academic All-American. [3] [4]

Professional career

Hartings in 2002. Jeff Hartings 2002.jpg
Hartings in 2002.
Pre-draft measurables
HeightWeightArm lengthHand span 40-yard dash 10-yard split20-yard split 20-yard shuttle Vertical jump Broad jump Bench press
6 ft 3 in
(1.91 m)		288 lb
(131 kg)		32 in
(0.81 m)		9+3⁄8 in
(0.24 m)		5.15 s1.75 s2.95 s4.30 s26.0 in
(0.66 m)		8 ft 2 in
(2.49 m)		26 reps

He was selected with the 23rd overall pick of the 1996 NFL draft by the Detroit Lions, where he played from 1996 to 2000. [5] He signed with the Pittsburgh Steelers as a free agent in 2001, where he moved from right guard to center. He was selected to the Pro Bowl in 2004 and 2005. Hartings retired following the 2006 season, citing recurring knee problems. [6] [7]

Coaching career

In April 2017, Hartings was named the head football coach at Worthington Christian High School. [8]

Personal life

Hartings is one of ten children. [9] A born-again Christian, he has performed missionary work in Nicaragua and helped to start a new non-denominational church with former Detroit Lions teammate Luther Elliss. Since his retirement, he and his wife Rebecca live in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Columbus, Ohio with their eight children, Sierra, Michael, Lucas, Mianna, Isabella, Jullexa, Jovanna and Malachi. [10]

Hartings was a high school teammate and graduating classmate of former Ohio State, Philadelphia Eagle, and Oakland Raider quarterback Bobby Hoying at St. Henry High School, a school with an average graduating class of about 100 students. St. Henry High School also produced accomplished former NFL offensive tackle Jim Lachey. [11]

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References

  1. ↑ ULREY, JARROD. "Football: Former NFL lineman named coach at Worthington Christian". The Columbus Dispatch.
  2. ↑ "St. Henry football: Top 7 players in Redskins history". dayton-daily-news.
  3. ↑ Collyer, Adam (July 15, 2016). "Only Jeff Hartings Until Penn State Football". Black Shoe Diaries.
  4. ↑ "Jeff Hartings (1995) - Hall of Fame". National Football Foundation.
  5. ↑ "1996 NFL Draft Listing". Pro-Football-Reference.com. Retrieved March 30, 2023.
  6. ↑ "Steelers' two-time Pro Bowl center Hartings to retire". ESPN.com. February 2, 2007.
  7. ↑ "It's official: Hartings retires from Steelers". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
  8. ↑ ULREY, JARROD. "Football: Former NFL lineman named coach at Worthington Christian". ThisWeek Community News. Retrieved September 12, 2017.
  9. ↑ NFL Football News Archived February 13, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
  10. ↑ Harris, John (December 31, 2006). "Steelers center Jeff Hartings maintains perspective, faith". Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. Archived from the original on February 28, 2009. Retrieved December 24, 2010.
  11. ↑ "St. Henry Professional Athletes". www.sthenryschools.org.
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