Marlon Humphrey

Marlon N. Humphrey (born July 8, 1996) is an American football cornerback for the Baltimore Ravens of the National Football League (NFL).

He attended Hoover High School, where he was named to the USA Today All-USA high school football team in 2012 and 2013.

Humphrey was named as a USA Today High School All-American for the 2012 and 2013 seasons.

During his tenure, he won a silver medal in the 110 metres hurdles at the 2013 World Youth Championships in Donetsk, Ukraine.

He also was named as a USA Today All-American Track and Field Team.

During his junior and senior seasons, Hoover went a combined 30–1, winning AHSAA 6A State Championships in 2013.

He won a silver medal in the 110 metres hurdles at the 2013 World Youth Championships in Donetsk, Ukraine.

He lost to Jaheel Hyde of Jamaica, who established a new championship record and came .01 seconds shy of tying the World Youth Best held by Wilhem Belocian.

Humphrey was also named to the USA Today All-American Track and Field Team.

Humphrey intended to compete in football and track for the Crimson Tide.

Humphrey was a highly-touted five-star prospect in the class of 2014 and received nine offers from Power Five schools, including Alabama, Florida State, UCLA, Auburn, Clemson, Georgia, Michigan State, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee.

Humphrey was vocal about his preference for attending Alabama and officially visited only Mississippi, Florida State, and Alabama, officially committing to the latter on January 29, 2014.

He was rated as high as the ninth-best recruit in the country, and three major recruiting websites all listed him as a top five player at his position.

Rivals.com ranked Humphrey the highest positionally, behind only Jabrill Peppers.

247Sports.com ranked him third behind Tony Brown and Adoree' Jackson, and ESPN.com ranked him fifth behind Peppers, Brown, Jackson, and Teez Tabor.

Rivals and 247Sports listed Humphrey as the best recruit from the state of Alabama in his class, while ESPN ranked him second behind Bo Scarbrough.

In high school, Humphrey also competed at a world-class level in track.

After redshirting his initial year in 2014, he became a starter at cornerback in 2015.

Humphrey played college football at Alabama in 2015 and 2016.

During his stint, he intended to compete in track and football, but went on to focus just on football.

In 2015, he and the Alabama football team won the CFP National Championship.

Humphrey earned the starting cornerback job in his first game against Wisconsin and ranked second on the team in interceptions with 3 during the 2015 season.

Humphrey was an essential part of an elite 2015 Alabama defense earning Freshman All-American rights.

In 2016, he was named to the College Football All-America Team.

The team went on to win their 16th national championship, with Humphrey recovering a key onside kick midway through the fourth quarter of the game.

After his impressive first season, Humphrey ended up earning first-team All-American rights in his final stint with the team.

He started 2016 with the team's first interception for a touchdown against USC, and started 14 games.

Humphrey continued to dominate opposing receivers the rest of the season, and declared his early departure from the collegiate level for the NFL draft.

Humphrey received an invitation to the NFL Combine and completed nearly all of the required drills, except for the shuttle and vertical.

He participated at Alabama's Pro Day and decided to only do positional drills for the scouts and team representatives.

He attended pre-draft visits with multiple teams, including the Philadelphia Eagles, Buffalo Bills, Dallas Cowboys, and Pittsburgh Steelers.

At the conclusion of the pre-draft process, Humphrey was projected to be a first round pick by NFL draft experts and scouts.

He was ranked as the second best cornerback prospect in the draft by ESPN analyst Mel Kiper Jr., was ranked the third best cornerback in the draft by NFL analysts Bucky Brooks and Mike Mayock, was ranked the fourth best cornerback by ESPN, and was ranked the fifth best cornerback in the draft by Sports Illustrated and DraftScout.com.

Humphrey was selected 16th overall by the Ravens in the 2017 NFL Draft.

The Baltimore Ravens selected Humphrey in the first round (16th overall) of the 2017 NFL Draft.

Humphrey was the second cornerback drafted in 2017, after Ohio State cornerback Marshon Lattimore (11th overall).

On May 5, 2017, the Baltimore Ravens signed Humphrey to a fully guaranteed four-year, $11.84 million contract with a signing bonus of $6.75 million.

In 2019, he changed his jersey number from 29 to 44 after the team signed Earl Thomas.

He earned a first-team All-Pro honor in 2019 and was named to the Pro Bowl team in 2019, 2020 and 2022.

A native of Hoover, Alabama, Humphrey attended Hoover High School, where he was a three-time All-State selection.