Michael Pratt (born September 30, 2001) 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 ...

quarterback The quarterback (commonly abbreviated "QB"), colloquially known as the "signal caller", is a position in gridiron football. Quarterbacks are members of the offensive platoon and mostly line up directly behind the offensive line. In modern Ame ...

who currently plays for the

Tulane Green Wave The Tulane Green Wave are the athletic teams that represent Tulane University, located in New Orleans, Louisiana. Tulane competes in NCAA Division I as a member of the American Athletic Conference (The American). There are 14 Green Wave intercol ...

Early life and high school

Pratt grew up in Boca Raton, Florida and was home schooled until the ninth grade. He initially attended

Boca Raton High School Boca Raton Community High School is a magnet high school that is part of the School District of Palm Beach County, Florida, United States. It has been rated an "A" school each consecutive year by the Florida Department of Education since 2005 and ...

, where he joined the football team as a freshman after never having played the sport before. As a junior, Pratt passed for 1,208 yards and 12 touchdowns with nine interceptions while also rushing for 447 yards and three touchdowns. He transferred to

Deerfield Beach High School Deerfield Beach High School (DBHS) is a public high school in Deerfield Beach, Florida. It is part of the Broward School District and has an enrollment of approximately 2,400. The school features the IB Middle Years Programme or Pre-IB, which ...

prior to his senior year. Pratt was rated a three-star recruit and committed to play college football at Tulane.

College career

Pratt became the starting quarterback for the Tulane Green Wave three games into his freshman season. He finished the year with 1,806 passing yards and 20 touchdown passes and also rushed for 229 yards and eight touchdowns. As a sophomore, Pratt completed 57.6% of his passes for 2,381 yards and 21 touchdowns with eight interceptions. He entered his junior season on the watchlist for the

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References

External links

Tulane Green Wave profile
{{DEFAULTSORT:Pratt, Michael Living people Players of American football from Florida American football quarterbacks Tulane Green Wave football players Sportspeople from Boca Raton, Florida Boca Raton Community High School alumni Year of birth missing (living people)