No. 97 – Los Angeles Rams | |||||||||
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Position: | Outside linebacker | ||||||||
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Born: | Oakville, Ontario, Canada | October 5, 1997||||||||
Height: | 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) | ||||||||
Weight: | 310 lb (141 kg) | ||||||||
Career information | |||||||||
High school: | Oakwood (OH) | ||||||||
College: | Brown | ||||||||
CFL Draft: | 2020 / Round: 2 / Pick: 10 | ||||||||
Undrafted: | 2020 | ||||||||
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Roster status: | Active | ||||||||
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Career NFL statistics as of 2023 | |||||||||
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Player stats at NFL.com · PFR |
Michael Hoecht (born October 5, 1997) is a Canadian professional American football outside linebacker for the Los Angeles Rams of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Brown.
Hoecht was born in Oakville, Ontario and lived in Canada until his family moved to Oakwood, Ohio (a community within Dayton, Ohio) when he was three years old. His family moved back to Canada for two years before he started high school, where he lived in Stittsville, where he went to South Carleton High School, then Toronto (North Toronto Collegiate Institute), before returning to Oakwood, Ohio, where he attended Oakwood High School for his final two years of high school. [1]
Hoecht played for the Brown Bears for four seasons. He was named second-team All-Ivy League as a senior after finishing the season with 42 tackles, nine tackles for a loss, and four sacks. [2] Hoecht finished his collegiate career with 174 tackles, 29.5 tackles for loss, and 16.5 sacks with two forced fumbles and four fumble recoveries in 37 games played. [3]
Season | GP | Defense | ||||
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Tckl | TfL | Sck | Int | FF | ||
2016 | 7 | 18 | 4.0 | 4.0 | 0 | 0 |
2017 | 10 | 45 | 10.0 | 5.0 | 0 | 1 |
2018 | 10 | 69 | 6.5 | 3.5 | 0 | 1 |
2019 | 10 | 42 | 9.0 | 4.0 | 0 | 0 |
Total | 37 | 174 | 29.5 | 16.5 | 0 | 2 |
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6 ft 3+1⁄4 in (1.91 m) | 310 lb (141 kg) | |||||||||||
Values from Pro Day [4] |
Hoecht was signed by the Los Angeles Rams as an undrafted free agent following the 2020 NFL Draft on April 26, 2020. [5] He was also selected by the Ottawa Redblacks in the second round of the 2020 CFL Draft. [1] Hoecht was waived by the Rams on September 4, 2020, during final roster cuts, and was subsequently signed to the team's practice squad one day later where he spent his first season. [6] [7]
In his second year, Hoecht signed a reserve/futures contract with the team on January 18, 2021. [8] Hoecht made the Rams' 53-man roster out of training camp to start the 2021 season. [9] Hoecht played in all 17 regular season games that year with three starts and had seven tackles. [10] In that year, he also played in all four of the Rams' postseason games, including the team's 23–20 win over the Cincinnati Bengals in Super Bowl LVI. [11]
For the entire 2022 season, Hoecht was on the Rams’ active roster. Midway through the season the Rams moved Hoecht’s position from defensive tackle to outside linebacker. As a starter in the final seven games, Hoecht produced 34 tackles, 4 tackles for loss, and 8 quarterback hits. [12]
On March 15, 2023, the Rams tendered Hoecht as an exclusive rights free agent for the 2023 season [13] which he signed a week later. [14] Hoecht went on to start every game of the 2023 season opposite rookie Byron Young, logging 6 sacks, 81 tackles, a forced fumble, 7 tackles for loss and 11 quarterback hits. [15] He helped the Rams clinch a playoff berth and produced half a sack and 2 quarterback hits in their 23-24 loss to the Detroit Lions in the Wildcard Round.
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