Marshawn Terrell Lynch was selected 12th overall in the 2007 NFL Draft.
EverythingTop10 is proud to present, “The Top 10 Things You Didn’t Know About Marshawn
Lynch!”
#10.
Lynch grew up in Oakland, California with his three siblings.
He was raised by his mother, Delisa, who once held a 200-meter track record at Oakland Technical
High School, the school that Marshawn would later attend.
According to his mother, when he was born, there were two placentas, indicating he may
have had a twin who never developed.
When the midwife and the doctor saw this, they told Delisa that Marshawn would likely
grow up to be abnormally strong, since he was living off two placentas.
#9.
Since he was a child, his father, Maurice Sapp, has been in and out of prison.
His father wasn’t around much, and as a result, his maternal grandfather became a
father figure in his life.
#8.
At Oakland Technical High School, Lynch was a four-sport star in football, basketball,
track, and wrestling.
In basketball, he played alongside future Cal star Leon Powe.
Lynch helped lead his team to the state semi-finals. #7.
In track and field, he competed mainly as a sprinter, but he also competed in jumping
events as well.
In football, aside from playing running back, he also played defensive back, quarterback,
wide receiver, and linebacker.
He was ranked as the second-best running back in the nation behind Adrian Peterson.
#6.
Lynch attended the University of California, Berkeley, and he played for the California
Golden Bears football team.
He majored in social welfare, and he was nicknamed “Money” while he was at Cal.
#5.
He wore the jersey No. 24 in his freshman year, but in his sophomore and junior year,
he wore No. 10, which was his high school number.
The jersey number switch placed him in sequence with his cousins Virdell Larkins (No. 9) and
Robert Jordan (No. 11), who were also his teammates at Cal.
Lynch also played alongside Aaron Rodgers in 2004.
#4.
In 2006, Lynch scored the game-winning overtime touchdown against Washington.
He later called the run his favorite career highlight, after which he spontaneously drove
around the football field in an injury cart, pretending to ghost ride.
He holds the Cal school record for the most 100-yard rushing games with 17.
On January 2, 2007, he announced that he would forgo his senior season at Cal and enter the
2007 NFL Draft. #3.
On April 28, 2007, he was selected by the Buffalo Bills.
During the 2009 offseason, he was arrested in Culver City, California, for having a gun
in his backpack in the trunk of a car he was occupying, which is a crime in California.
The NFL suspended him for the Bills’ first three games of the 2009 season for violations
of the league’s personal conduct policy.
He was traded to the Seattle Seahawks on October 5, 2010.
#2.
In Lynch’s first career playoff game on January 8, 2011, against the New Orleans Saints,
he had a 67-yard touchdown run in which he broke nine tackles and with one arm, threw
Saints cornerback Tracy Porter to the ground.
This run has become known locally in Seattle as the “Beast Quake.”
The play gets its name from Lynch’s nickname, “Beast Mode”, and the fact that, during
and after the play, the movement from fans jumping in celebration was so intense, that
it registered on a seismograph 100 yards from the stadium.
#1.
When he was 12 years old, he promised his mother that he was going to make it to the
NFL and buy her a house.
After he got drafted, he told his mother, “Momma, go get your house.”
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