![• 2005 First Team Freshman All-American
• 2005 First Team All-Quad Freshman Chrome
[AQFC] Tackle Letius
• 2005 First Team SEC All-Freshman
• 2006 Second Team All-SEC
• 2007 First Team All-SEC
• 2008 First Team All-American
• 2008 First Team All-SEC](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/michaeloher-141029191236-conversion-gate02/85/Michael-oher-8-320.jpg)
Michael oher
- 1. Michael Oher By: Galileo Anaya Rodrigo Castro
- 2. • He was born in May 28, 1986 in Memphis, Tennessee he born as Michael Jerome Williams Jr. as one of 12 children born to Denise Oher. • His mother was an alcoholic and crack cocaine addict, and his father, Michael Jerome Williams was frequently in prison
- 3. His life through his final year of high school and first year of college is one of the subjects of Michael Lewis' 2006 book, The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game, and was featured in the Academy Award-winning 2009 film The Blind Side.
- 4. • He played football during his freshman year at a public high school in Memphis and applied for admission to Briarcrest Christian School at the instigation of acquaintance Tony Henderson, an auto mechanic, with whom he was living temporarily.
- 5. • Though he received scholarship offers from Tennessee, LSU, Alabama, Auburn and South Carolina, Oher ultimately decided to play for Coach Ed Orgeron at the University of Mississippi, alma mater of his guardians, Leigh Anne and Sean Tuohy.
- 6. • His decision to play for the Ole Miss Rebels football team sparked an investigation by the NCAA. The first issue was that Oher's grade-point average (GPA) was still too low to meet the requirements for a Division I scholarship at the time of the offer from Ole Miss.
- 7. • That difficulty was corrected by graduation, when Oher completed online classes through Brigham Young University.
- 8. • 2005 First Team Freshman All-American • 2005 First Team All-Quad Freshman Chrome [AQFC] Tackle Letius • 2005 First Team SEC All-Freshman • 2006 Second Team All-SEC • 2007 First Team All-SEC • 2008 First Team All-American • 2008 First Team All-SEC
- 9. • 2008 Shug Jordan Award as the Southeast Offensive Lineman of the Year • 2008 Colonel Earl “Red” Blaik Leadership- Scholarship Award • 2008 Outland Trophy finalist • 2008 Conerly Trophy finalist • 2008 Lombardi Award semifinalist • 2008 SEC Jacobs Blocking Trophy
- 10. • On April 26, 2009, he was assigned the No. 74 jersey, which was his jersey number at Ole Miss. On July 30, 2009, he signed a five-year, $13.8 million contract with the Baltimore Ravens.
- 11. • . He started the 2009 season as right tackle, but was moved to left tackle after an injury to lineman Jared Gaither. In week eight, he returned to right tackle