Marquise Hill
De La Salle (New Orleans, Louisiana) | |||
| College: | LSU | ||
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| NFL draft: | 2004 / Round: 2 / Pick: 63 | ||
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| Player stats at NFL.com · PFR | |||
Marquise Hill (August 7, 1982 – May 28, 2007) was an
2004 NFL Draft. He played college football at LSU
.
High school career
Hill attended
U.S. Army All-American Bowl
game on December 30, 2000.
College career
Hill played
LSU Tigers
from 2001-2003 during their national championship season.
Professional career
Hill was drafted by the Patriots in the second round with the 63rd overall pick in the
2004 NFL Draft.[2]
He played in one game in 2004 and played in eight games in the 2005 season, making three tackles.
Death
On the evening of May 27, 2007, Hill and his friend, Ashley Blazio, fell off a
CDT
on May 28.
Throughout their near-perfect 2007 season, the Patriots team wore a "91" insignia (Hill's number in his tenure with New England) on the back of their helmets in his honor. Teammate Jarvis Green, who had also been Hill's teammate at LSU, wore Hill's shoulder pads for the season. The Patriots built a tribute to Hill, including those pads and pictures of Hill, at their facility.[4]
See also
References
- NFL.com.
- ^ "2004 NFL Draft Listing". Pro-Football-Reference.com. Retrieved 2023-05-06.
- ^ Simpson, April and Michael Levenson (2007-05-29). "Patriot Hill is found dead". The Boston Globe. Retrieved 2009-11-11.
- ^ "Patriots DB Joejuan Williams adds safety work to offseason regimen". ESPN.com. 2020-05-24. Retrieved 2020-05-27.
Further reading
- Hill, Sherry (2008), The Marquise Hill Story, ISBN 978-1-4363-5690-9
External links
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