Mitchell schwartz weight8/7/2023 ![]() ![]() Schwartz was a first-team All-Pac-10 preseason choice of Athlon, Phil Steele (who named him the nation's # 24 draft-eligible tackle), and Sporting News, a Lindy's second-team preseason All-Pac-10 pick (whom they listed as one of Cal's "Players to Watch"), and a third-team preseason All-American by and Sporting News. He helped the team average 28.3 points and 401.5 yards per game. He headed an offensive line that blocked for 1,322-yard rushing tailback Isi Sofele, who rushed for the sixth-highest total in Cal history. It was the fourth consecutive season in which he started each of Cal's games. In 2011, Schwartz started all 13 games at left tackle. He was also an honorable mention Pac-10 All-Academic selection for the third consecutive season. Schwartz was a member of the Jewish Sports Review's 2010 College Football All-America Team, received Cal's Brick Muller Award as its Most Valuable Offensive Lineman for the second straight year, and won Cal's Andy Smith Award as its player with the most Big "C" time. He was a second-team All-Pac-10 choice, and was first-team on Phil Steele's midseason All-Pac-10 team and second-team on his postseason All-Pac-10 squad. ![]() Schwartz was a second-team preseason All-Pac-10 choice by Athlon, Lindy's, and Steele, as Steele also listed him as the nation's # 63 draft-eligible tackle. In 2010, he started all 12 games at left tackle, heading an offensive line that blocked for 1,167-yard rusher Shane Vereen. He was Lindy's second-team preseason All-Pac-10, was Athlon third-team preseason All-Pac-10, was a Phil Steele preseason, midseason, and postseason third-team All-Pac-10 choice, received All-Pac-10 honorable mention and Pac-10 All-Academic honorable mention, and received Cal's Brick Muller Award as its Most Valuable Offensive Lineman. In 2009, Schwartz started all 13 games at right tackle. He was named a second-team Freshman All-American by College Football News, received the Bob Tessier Award as Cal's Most Improved Offensive Lineman, and received honorable mention Pac-10 All-Academic honors. ![]() In 2008, Schwartz started all 13 games, the first 3 games at right tackle and the remaining 10 at left tackle. He graduated with a bachelor's degree in American Studies, with an emphasis on human development and identity. Schwartz attended the University of California, Berkeley, from 2007 to December 2011. He ran the 40-yard dash in 5.28, and had a time in the 20-yard shuttle of 4.87 he also had a time in the shuttle of 4.78 at the Stanford Nike combine. At a spring LA combine, Schwartz measured 6 feet 5.5 inches (1.969 m) tall, and weighed 303 pounds (137 kg). Academically, he had a 4.3 GPA and a 34 ACT, and was named to the Principal's Honor Roll and Dean's List.Ĭoming out of high school, he received football offers from Cal, Michigan, Stanford, Virginia, Tennessee, Oregon, and Washington State. ![]() Schwartz was also an all-league pitcher on the school baseball team. As a senior, he was the 2006 California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) Los Angeles City Offensive Lineman of the Year, 2006 Western League Lineman of the Year, and received Prepstar 2006 All-West Region honors. Schwartz was a two-time All-State "underclassman" pick, and earned 2005 All-Western League and All-City honors as a junior. He began as a quarterback, but quickly moved over to offensive tackle where he was a four-year starter. Playing football for his high school team, on which he was the team captain, he was regarded as a three-star offensive tackle prospect by, and by which ranked him # 23. Schwartz attended Palisades Charter High School. And I started to kind of feel like maybe this was their destiny. They were like trucks hitting small cars. I started out worrying that they were going to get hurt-but then I realized it was the other players I should be worrying about. His father, speaking of the fact that he has two sons playing in the National Football League, said: "I just kvell." His mother, commenting on having two sons play football, said: ![]()
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