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LA Rams Jack Youngblood DE

85 Jack Youngblood  DE

HT:  6-4   WT:  244

College:  Florida


With the Rams 1971 - 1984.

Played 202 games, with streak of 201 in row; Team Record.

Played 16 postseasons games.

True story.....
Ex-teammate & Pro Football Hall a Famer Merlin Olsen, paid Jack Youngblood the ultimate compliment.  He called Jack Youngblood "the perfect defensive end." Merlin Olsen had a profound effect on Jack Youngblood.  It was Olsen who taught Youngblood what it meant to play in pain.

"I remember one time when a guy stepped on Merlin's hand with those nylon cleats," says Youngblood. "Ripped it wide open." He came back to the huddle holding it.  I looked over, and I could see all the bones.  I almost fainted.  Merlin said, 'Aw it's all right.'  "He held it together and stopped the bleeding a little bit.  That was first down.  He stayed out there two more plays before we went to the sidelines."

 

Jack Youngblood will be known for: 2 Games and One Play

2 Games: January 1980
Jack Youngblood played in the NFC Championship Game and Super Bowl XIV, with a stress fracture in left leg.  He played with a broken leg.

One Play: 1975 playoffs
Jack Youngblood pass-rushed future Hall of Famer Dan Dierdorf off the line, tipped and intercepted a pass and returned a 65 yards for a touchdown.  The Rams won that game.


Honors:

2001: Jack Youngblood was named in the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

He is also in the Rams Ring of Fame.

  • 1971 NFL All-Rookie

  • NFL Defensive Player of the Year 1975

  • NFL Defensive Lineman of the Year 1975

  • NFC Defensive Player of the Year 1975 & 1976

  • NFL All-Decade Teams 1970's (first team)

  • Player of the Week 1983 (week 16) & 1984 (week 5)

  • All-Madden 1984 & 1996 (Super Bowl Team)

  • Daniel F. Reeves Memorial Award 1975-1976 & 1979(Rams Award)

  • Ed Block Courage Award 1984 (Rams Award)
Stats:

Individual Stats

151.5  Career Sacks

7 Pro Bowl

7 Consecutive Pro Bowl Seasons

6 All-Pro Seasons

8 Blocked Punts

2 Safeties

Playoffs Stats

Sacks 7.5 (Team Record)

2 fumbles recovered

1 TD interception

Rams leader in Sacks by Years Stats
Years Sacks   Years Sacks
1973 16.5 1979 18.0
1974 15.0 1980 11.5
1975 15.0 1981 12.5
  1976* 14.5 1983 10.5
1977 8.5 1984 9.5

*Tied with Larry Brooks
  • 18 sacks in 1979 best year
  • Playoffs 2.5 sacks @ Dallas, 12/23/73
  • Playoff Longest fumble return 10 yards @ Minnesota 12/26/76


The Perfect Defensive End:


90 Larry Brooks and 85 Jack Youngblood
tackling 34 Walter Payton
Youngblood pass-rushing
QB Ron Jaworski

 

 

As a boy he grew up crating watermelons in the Montecello, Florida.  He loves the country life, he said "I'll take a nice, plowed field to a concrete freeway any day."

Outside of football Jack Youngblood was a regular guy.  He would drive in his pickup truck into the mountains and put Willie Nelson on the tape player.

 


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