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| No. 74 – Tampa Bay Buccaneers | |
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| Position: | Guard |
| Personal information | |
| Born: | (1993-04-17) April 17, 1993 (age 31) Hastings-on-Hudson, New York |
| Height: | 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) |
| Weight: | 307 lb (139 kg) |
| Career information | |
| College: | Hobart |
| NFL draft: | 2015 / round: 2 / pick: 61 |
| Career history | |
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| Roster status: | Active |
| Career highlights and awards | |
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Stats at Pro Football Reference  | |
Alexander "Ali" Marpet (Ali rhymes with "tally", and MarPET rhymes with "Marquette"; born April 17, 1993) is a 6' 4", 307-pound American football offensive guard for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers of the National Football League (NFL).
Marpet played college football at Hobart College, a small 2,400-student school. In 2014, he was a Lindy's preseason All-American first team, American Football Coaches Association (AFCA) All-American, D3football.com All-America first team, and Liberty League Co-Offensive Player of the Year.
He attended the 2015 Senior Bowl, as the first NCAA Division III player picked to play in a Senior Bowl. Sports Illustrated named Marpet the "biggest riser" at the game, and included him on its All-Offense team. At the Scouting Combine in February 2015, he ran the fastest 40-yard dash among among offensive line prospects eligible for the 2015 NFL Draft (4.98), the fastest 10-yard (9.1 m) split (1.74 seconds), and also the second-best time in the three-cone drill (7.33) and 20-yard shuttle (4.47), while scoring the highest "Speed, Power, Agility, Reaction and Quickness" (SPARQ) score. He also performed 30 repetitions at 225 pounds (102 kg) in the bench press, tied for fifth-best among offensive linemen.
Drafted in the 2nd round, 61st overall, of the 2015 NFL draft by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Marpet is the highest-drafted pick in the history of NCAA Division III football. Bucs General Manager Jason Licht said Marpet would have a chance to compete for a starting job right away, and envisioned him playing at guard, and ESPN predicted that Marpet was probably going to start immediately at right guard.
Early life
Marpet, who is Jewish, grew up in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York. The village is in Westchester County, 20 miles (32 km) northeast of New York City.
His father, who is six feet tall, is Bill Marpet. His father's first wife was Israeli, and he started out as a studio cameraman for a educational television program in Tel Aviv, while he lived in Israel for five years beginning in 1974. He is an Emmy Award-winning videographer and director who since 1993 has headed B Productions, and produces fashion videos in New York.
Ali Marpet's mother, Joy Rose, is 5' 8". She wrote songs and sang in clubs in the 1980s, and had a dance charts hit that was titled "Sexual Voodoo." In 1997 she founded the rock band "Housewives on Prozac", and by 2004 the band had recorded two live albums. She also founded Mamapalooza, a music and arts festival that acknowledge the power of moms, and the Museum of Motherhood, a popup museum that focuses on motherhood and the role of the mom. His parents are divorced. Ali Marpet's brother Blaze was as of 2015 studying for his doctoral degree in ancient Greek philosophy at Northwestern University, his brother Brody lived in St. Petersburg, Florida, and his sister Zena was studying to be a nurse practitioner at Eckerd College.
He is an alumnus of Birthright Israel. Marpet said that it would be a "huge honor" to represent Jews as an athlete, and that: "I’m happy to wave that flag." Marpet joins current Jewish National Football League (NFL) offensive linemen Geoff Schwartz, Mitchell Schwartz, and Gabe Carimi.
High school
At Hastings High School, Marpet played offensive tackle and defensive end for the Yellowjackets, was a three-time varsity letterman, was named second team All-State, earned all-section honors, and was a two-time all-league selection. He played the offensive line as a 160 pounds (73 kg) ninth-grader. Marpet stopped playing football subsequent to his freshman year, in order to focus on basketball, which he also played for the school, and in which he was a two-time all-league selection. He came back to the football team in his junior year, by which time he weighed 210 pounds (95 kg). From the time he graduated in 2011, at which time he weighed 240 pounds (110 kg), until the spring of his junior year in college, he viewed his future path as being to obtain an undergraduate degree in economics, followed by employment in finance.
College career
Hobart College
Marpet attended Hobart and William Smith Colleges, subsequent to being sought after to play football by Holy Cross, Fordham University, and Marist College. He attended the school as an economics major, with minors in philosophy and public policy, from 2011 to 2014. He would also like to earn a master's degree in physical education.
Hobart is a private liberal arts college of 2,400 students (as of 2014) in Geneva, in Upstate New York. The school competes in NCAA Division III, which does not award athletic scholarships. Marpet earned an academic scholarship, but was not given any funds related to his football performance to help him pay the school's $57,000 tuition each year. Yahoo! Sports noted: "the school produc far more hedge-fund managers than athletes". Only one other Hobart football player was drafted by the NFL before Marpet—in 1937, when halfback Fred King was drafted and ultimately played one game for the NFL's Brooklyn Dodgers. Marpet played his college career in front of crowds that were never larger than a few hundred people.
His relatively small size for his position when he graduated from high school had left larger colleges disinclined to pursue him. To bulk up, Marpet consumed 7,000 to 9,000 calories a day, and his clothing size increased from XL to XXXL. He weighed 250 pounds (110 kg) as a freshman, increased his weight to 280 pounds (130 kg) by sophomore year, and 290 pounds (130 kg) by his junior year. He originally wanted to play both basketball and football in college.
A four-year member of the Hobart football team, he was a three-year starter at left tackle. He started 37 of the 43 games he played, helping the Statesmen win four consecutive Liberty League Championships. Marpet and the Statesmen made four consecutive NCAA Division III Football Championship appearances, advancing to the quarterfinal rounds in 2012 and 2014. During his career, Hobart posted a record of 41–5, losing just one regular-season game.
In 2012, he started all 13 games and was All-Liberty League first team, and D3football.com All-East second team. In 2013, he was captain of the football team and Lindy's preseason All-American first team. He started all 11 games during the season and was All-Liberty League first team, Liberty League All-Academic, Jewish Sports Review All-American, D3football.com All-East second team, Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) North All-Star second team, and won the Tryon Football Award.
In 2014, he was again captain of the team and Lindy's preseason All-American first team, a Beyond Sports Network (BSN) preseason All-American, and was D3football.com preseason All-American second team. He started all 13 games at left tackle, did not allow a quarterback sack, and was Liberty League Co-Offensive Player of the Year—the first offensive lineman in league history to be so honored. He was an American Football Coaches Association (AFCA) All-American, a unanimous All-Liberty League first team, D3football.com All-America first team, D3football.com All-East first team, ECAC North first team All-Star, Jewish Sports Review All-American, and AP Little All-America (top players from Division II, III, and NAIA) second team. He won the William C. Stiles '43 Memorial Award and the Bill Middleton Memorial Award.
2015 Senior Bowl
Marpet attended the 2015 Senior Bowl college football all-star game. He was the first Division III player picked to play in the Senior Bowl. During practice and during the game, he played tackle, guard, and center. In the game, he reportedly performed well. He was one of the only linemen who was able to block University of Washington defensive tackle and first round pick Danny Shelton. Sports Illustrated named Marpet the "biggest riser" at the Senior Bowl, and included him on its All-Offense team.
Professional career
Combine
| 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 | Bench press | |
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| 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) |
307 lb (139 kg) |
33 3⁄8 | 10 in (0.25 m) |
4.98 s | 1.71 s | 2.87 s | 4.47 s | 7.33 s | 30.5 in (0.77 m) |
9 ft 0 in (2.74 m) |
30 reps | |
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At the NFL Scouting Combine in February 2015, Marpet's performances identified him as one of the 2015 NFL Draft's most athletic offensive linemen. Among offensive linemen, he ran the fastest 40-yard dash, with 4.98, and the fastest 10-yard (9.1 m) split, at 1.71 seconds. He also had the second-best time in both the three-cone drill (7.33) and 20-yard shuttle (4.47). He performed 30 repetitions at 225 pounds (102 kg) in the bench press, tied for fifth-best among offensive linemen.
Marpet also scored the highest "Speed, Power, Agility, Reaction and Quickness" (SPARQ) score among all offensive line prospects eligible for the draft. Scouts considered him a rare "30–30–30" prospect: 30 reps at 225 pounds in the bench press, a vertical leap of greater than 30 inches, and a Wonderlic test score of over 30. After his Combine performances, every NFL team wanted him to work out privately with them.
Draft
WalterFootball.com’s mock draft predicted Marpet going 63rd overall to the Seattle Seahawks. Sports Illustrated’s second-round mock draft predicted Marpet going 64th overall to the New England Patriots. Sports Illustrated initially rated Marpet as the 89th-rated player among those draft eligible, and 14th among offensive linemen.
Lance Zierlein of NFL.com praised him for his: "Good foot quickness with ability to reach and hook opponents. Quick out of stance and into defender", and his hand placement in both the running game and the passing game. CBS Sports wrote that Marpet was a quick thinker with a high football IQ, with "NFL toughness and play speed". Fox News reported that he has "solid foot quickness and a strong explosion out of his stance." NFL Network analyst Charles Davis said: "He definitely belongs."
He was drafted in the 2nd round, 61st overall, of the 2015 NFL draft by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on May 1, 2015. The Buccaneers traded with the Indianapolis Colts back up four spots to the 61st pick in order to select Marpet, with the Colts also sending the 128th pick of the draft to the Buccaneers, in exchange for Tampa's 65th and 109th picks.
Marpet was the highest-drafted pick in the history of NCAA Division III football. He was the 20th Division III player to be drafted since 1990. Marpet was the first Division III player to be selected in the top 100 players in an NFL draft since 1990, when the Seattle Seahawks chose Ferrum College's running back Chris Warren with the # 84 pick.
His agent is Andrew Ross. Marpet planned to use his first NFL check to pay the amount outstanding on his college loans, and then put "all or most of it away." He and the team agreed to a four-year contract on June 10, 2015.
Some analysts anticipate that Marpet will move from left tackle to either guard or center in the NFL. NFL Media draft analyst Mike Mayock said: "He has the ability to be a starting center." Marpet ran the 40-yard dash just one-tenth of second slower than his new quarterback, Jameis Winston, who was the number one pick in the draft.
Bucs General Manager Jason Licht said Marpet would have an opportunity to challenge for a starting job at once, and envisions him playing at guard, while eventually having the versatility to play center. Bucs offensive line coach George Warhop, answering a question as to who would compete with Marpet to start at right guard, said whoever is the best of Kadeem Edwards, Josh Allen, and Garrett Gilkey. Bucs head coach Lovie Smith noted: "I've never been one to shy away from playing young players if they're the best we have." ESPN predicted that Marpet was probably going to start immediately at right guard.
See also
References
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- "Bucs trade up to pick Division III sleeper OL in 2nd round". 10NEWS. May 2, 2015.
- ^ Kevin McGuire (May 2, 2015). "Ali Marpet puts D3 Hobart on the NFL Draft scoreboard – College Football Talk". NBC Sports.
- ^ "Ali Marpet Makes Splash as Tampa Bay Buccaneers Take Jewish Lineman in Second Round". The Forward. May 1, 2015.
- ^ "Birthright alumnus a hot prospect in NFL draft; ESPN.com ranks Ali Marpet as the No. 4 guard and No. 84 overall prospect in this year's NFL draft". Haaretz. May 1, 2015.
- ^ "Ali Marpet Draft Profile". NFL.com.
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- ^ Michael Rothstein (April 25, 2015). "Ali Marpet – Offensive lineman from Division III Hobart College surges up draft boards". ESPN.
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- "Press Release: 2015 Game: Position Review, The Offensive Line: Senior Bowl". seniorbowl.com. February 10, 2015.
- ^ "AFCA Announces 2014 Division III Coaches All-America Team". afca.com.
- "2014 D3football.com All-America team". d3football.com. December 19, 2014.
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- Josh Thomson (January 23, 2015). "Hastings' Ali Marpet competing against the nation's best". lohud.com.
- Bryan Fischer (April 8, 2015). "Shaq Thompson, Ali Marpet among toughest to evaluate in draft". NFL.com.
- "Ali Marpet – Hobart & William Smith, OG : 2015 NFL Draft Scout Player Profile". nfldraftscout.com.
- ^ Charles Davis (February 24, 2015). "Five players that boosted their NFL draft stock at the combine". NFL.com.
- Will Brinson (February 20, 2015). "2015 NFL Combine: A 300-pound lineman from Hobart ran a sub-5 40". CBS Sports.
- Chase Goodbread (February 20, 2015). "Friday's best and worst from the NFL Scouting Combine". NFL.com.
- Zach Whitman (March 23, 2015). "SPARQ: OL and DL". Rotoworld.com.
- Greg Auman (May 1, 2015). "New Bucs lineman Ali Marpet emerges from Division III Hobart". Tampa Bay Times.
- Les Carpenter (April 30, 2015). "The star from Division III: Ali Marpet leads NFL Draft's legion of invisible men". The Guardian.
- ^ Roy Cummings (May 6, 2015). "Mock drafts indicate Bucs didn't reach for OL Marpet". TBO.com.
- ^ "NFL Draft Profile: Hobart OL Ali Marpet". CSN Chicago. April 23, 2015.
- Andrew Astleford (May 1, 2015). "Bucs grab OT Donovan Smith, trade back into 2nd round to get OG Ali Marpet". Fox Sports.
- Josh Alper (May 1, 2015). "Bucs trade back into second round, take Ali Marpet at No. 61 – ProFootballTalk". NBC Sports.
- ^ Ron Clement (May 1, 2015). "Bucs trade back in Round 2 for D-III lineman Ali Marpet". Sporting News.
- ^ Paul Yasinskas (May 1, 2015). "2015 NFL Draft: Tampa Bay Buccaneers draft OL Ali Marpet – NFC South". ESPN.
- ^ Scott Smith (May 1, 2015). "Front-Loaded: Bucs Add G Marpet in Rd. 2". buccaneers.com.
- Scott Smith (June 11, 2015). "Buccaneers, Ali Marpet Agree to Terms". buccaneers.com.
- Mike Huguenin (April 27, 2015). "Brandon Scherff, Eric Rowe facing position changes in NFL". NFL.com.
- "Buccaneers select Hobart offensive lineman Ali Marpet". Yahoo Sports. May 2, 2015.
- Will Brinson (February 28, 2015). "Ali Marpet: 'I think I'd beat' Jameis Winston in the 40-yard dash". CBS Sports.
- Joe Kania (May 14, 2015). "Coach Warhop Talks Smith, Marpet". buccaneers.com.
- Rick Stroud (May 1, 2015). "Bucs draft two offensive linemen in second round". Tampa Bay Times.
- Pat Yasinskas (May 20, 2015). "All seven Tampa Bay Buccaneers rookies have chance at instant impact – NFC South". ESPN.
External links
- Hobart Statesman bio
- "On the Clock: Hobart offensive lineman Ali Marpet" (video), NFL.com
- "Watch: Ali Marpet Highlights" (video), Tampa Bay Buccaneers (May 1, 2015)
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