Johnny Holland

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Johnny Holland
San Francisco 49ers
Position:Linebackers coach
Personal information
Born: (1965-03-11) March 11, 1965 (age 59)
Bellville, Texas, U.S.
Height:6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)
Weight:221 lb (100 kg)
Career information
High school: Hempstead (Hempstead, Texas)
College: Texas A&M
NFL draft: 1987  / Round: 2 / Pick: 41
Career history
As a player:
As a coach:
Career highlights and awards
Career NFL statistics
Games:103
Sacks:3.5
Interceptions:9
Player stats at NFL.com

Johnny Ray Holland (born March 11, 1965) is an American professional football coach and former player who is the linebackers coach for the San Francisco 49ers of the National Football League (NFL). Holland played in the NFL as a linebacker for the Green Bay Packers from 1987 to 1993. He was inducted into the Green Bay Packers Hall of Fame.

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Holland played college football for the Texas A&M Aggies and was selected in the second round of the 1987 NFL Draft. He won a Super Bowl with the Packers. He is also an inductee into the Texas A&M Hall of Fame and the Cotton Bowl Hall of Fame.

Playing career

High school

Holland is a graduate of Hempstead High School in Hempstead, Texas. While attending Hempstead High, Holland was a letterman in several sports. He became an All-State player in both football and basketball, while simultaneously becoming a top-10 student. Holland is the first of only three Hempstead High School alumni to play in the NFL, the other being Harvey Williams and Tre Turner.

College

Prior to his professional football career, Holland was a four-year letterman at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas. There, he was a three-year starter and was Texas A&M's all-time leading tackler until his record was broken in 1998 by Dat Nguyen. [1]

NFL

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 1+3⁄4 in
(1.87 m)		226 lb
(103 kg)		33 in
(0.84 m)		10+1⁄4 in
(0.26 m)		4.76 s1.64 s2.75 s4.36 s33.5 in
(0.85 m)		10 ft 4 in
(3.15 m)		16 reps
All values from NFL Combine [2]

Holland was a second-round draft pick for the Green Bay Packers in 1987. [3] He posted over 100 tackles for six consecutive seasons while playing for Green Bay. He retired from play after the 1993 season. He was inducted into the Green Bay Packers Hall of Fame in 2001. [4]

Coaching career

After retiring as a linebacker for Green Bay, Holland moved on to an NFL coaching career, beginning as a defensive quality control coach for the Packers from 1995 to 1997. He went on to coach special teams in 1998 and linebackers in 1999. He helped to lead the Packers to back-to-back NFC championships following the 1995 and 1996 seasons and an NFL championship in Super Bowl XXXI.

In 2000, Holland moved on to the Seattle Seahawks, where he served as the assistant special teams and assistant strength and conditioning coach. He returned to his more familiar role as linebackers coach in 2001 and 2002. For the 2003 season, Holland moved to the Detroit Lions. In Detroit, he was defensive assistant coach from 2003 to 2004 and linebackers coach in 2005. Holland returned his home state of Texas in 2006. He was the linebackers coach for the Houston Texans until being fired in 2011. [5]

In 2012, Holland was hired by new Raiders head coach Dennis Allen to coach the team's linebackers. On December 31, 2012, he was relieved of his duties. Holland joined the BC Lions of the Canadian Football League (CFL) as a linebackers coach on February 19, 2014, after 17 years of coaching in the NFL. He returned to the NFL in 2016 as linebackers coach of the Cleveland Browns under head coach Hue Jackson. [6]

Family

Holland is married to Faith Holland and is the father of Jordan Holland and Joli Holland.

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References

  1. ↑ "Texas A&M Athletics Football Records". Archived from the original on March 2, 2007. Retrieved September 26, 2006.
  2. ↑ "Johnny Holland, Combine Results, OLB - Texas A&M". nflcombineresults.com. Retrieved March 13, 2023.
  3. ↑ "1987 NFL Draft Listing". Pro-Football-Reference.com. Retrieved September 25, 2023.
  4. ↑ Christl, Cliff. "Johnny Holland". Packers.com. Archived from the original on May 23, 2023. Retrieved September 20, 2023.
  5. ↑ "Texans keep Kubiak; four defensive coaches fired". January 3, 2011.
  6. ↑ "NFL Team News".
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