Jonathan Marshall (born September 16, 1997) is an

American football American football (referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada), also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end. The offense, the team wi ...

defensive tackle for the Pittsburgh Steelers of the

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(NFL). He played college football at

Arkansas Arkansas ( ) is a landlocked state in the South Central United States. It is bordered by Missouri to the north, Tennessee and Mississippi to the east, Louisiana to the south, and Texas and Oklahoma to the west. Its name is from the O ...

Professional career

New York Jets

Marshall was drafted by the New York Jets of the

(NFL) in the sixth round, 207th overall, of the

2021 NFL Draft The 2021 NFL Draft was the 86th National Football League Draft, the annual meeting of National Football League (NFL) franchises to select newly eligible players for the 2021 NFL season. The draft was held in Cleveland from April 29 to May 1, 202 ...

. On May 7, 2021, Marshall officially signed with the Jets. On August 30, 2022, Marshall was waived by the Jets and signed to the practice squad the next day.

Pittsburgh Steelers

On December 14, 2022, the Pittsburgh Steelers signed Marshall off the Jets practice squad to their active roster. He was waived on August 29, 2023 and re-signed to the practice squad.

Personal life

His cousin,

Cedric Reed Cedric Reed (born October 9, 1992) is a former American football defensive end. He was signed by the Buffalo Bills as an undrafted free agent in 2015. He played college football at Texas. College career Reed made 32 starts for the Longhorns, ta ...

, is a former NFL player. He is also related to

Cedrick Hardman Cedrick Ward Hardman (October 4, 1948 – March 8, 2019) was an American Football defensive end who played for the National Football League's San Francisco 49ers and Oakland Raiders and the United States Football League's Oakland Invaders. Hardm ...

, who played in the NFL for the

San Francisco 49ers The San Francisco 49ers (also written as the San Francisco Forty-Niners) are a professional American football team based in the San Francisco Bay Area. The 49ers compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member of the league's National ...

and Oakland Raiders from 1970 to 1981, winning Super Bowl XV with the Raiders in 1981.

References

External links

Arkansas Razorbacks bio
Living people Arkansas Razorbacks football players New York Jets players People from Shepherd, Texas Players of American football from Texas American football defensive tackles 1997 births {{defensive-lineman-1990s-stub