For former Marine and current Tennessee Titans fullback Ahmard Hall, 2011 was a year to forget. Unfortunately for Hall, he literally has trouble remembering the very end of his season because of the concussion he sustained in fourth quarter of the Titans’ final game. Hall, who served in the Corps from 1998-2002, got clocked by Houston linebacker Tim Dobbins on an outside run with less than two minutes to play. Watch the play here. The force caused Hall spin in the air and fumble, with the Texans recovering. Hall told The Tennessean on Monday that he was “clearing up” but…
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Ahmard Hall returned to the Tennessee Titans this week after serving a four-week suspension for using a banned substance. The former Marine sergeant, now in his sixth year in the NFL, wants folks to know that he wasn’t taking steroids. Hall told reporters yesterday that he popped positive for Adderall, a combination of amphetamine and dextroamphetamine which is prescribed to treat attention deficit disorder. Hall says he borrowed the drug from a friend to keep him alert for a drive home to Texas in February. This is an odd strategy if Hall is trying to clear his name. Isn’t taking a…
The Boston Herald is reporting that two former Naval Academy standouts are expected to be joining the New England Patriots very soon. Wide receiver Tyree Barnes and running back Eric Kettani — each commissioned as officers in 2009 — will be reporting to Patriots headquarters in Foxboro, Mass., this week, according to the paper. Barnes and Kettani both served the mandatory two years on active-duty that the Defense Department requires of service academy graduates seeking to play professional sports. Both players, along with fellow class of 2009 grad Shun White, were kept on New England’s Reserve/Military list the past two…
The sergeant is now a captain. Former Marine Ahmard Hall has been voted as one of the Tennessee Titans co-captains for the 2010 season, The Tennessean reported. Hall, once a walk-on at the University of Texas, has become one of the top fullbacks in the NFL since joining Tennessee in 2006. Last year he helped clear the way for Titans tailback Chris Johnson, who finished with 2,006 yards rushing — the sixth highest total in NFL history. “It’s a great honor,” Hall told The Tennessean. “Your fellow teammates vote on it, so you can tell they think highly of you.…
It’s not exactly the Pro Bowl, but Marine Corps veteran Ahmard Hall has been named to the USA TODAY “All-Joe Team.” After probably the best season of his 4-year career, the Tennessee Titan was the publication’s pick for fullback on the honorary squad. So what exactly is the All-Joe Team? USA TODAY says it’s reserved for NFL players who are “unheralded, unloved and, sometimes, underpaid since the one prerequisite for being an All-Joe is that you cannot have a Pro Bowl on your résumé.” USA TODAY has put the team together since 1992, and it’s named after former Kansas City…
No running back in the NFL has been more explosive this season than Tennessee’s Chris Johnson. He leads the NFL in rushing with 1,396 yards and is on pace for a 2,000 yard season and a shot at Eric Dickerson’s NFL record for rushing yards in a season. A former Marine is a one of the keys to Johnson’s success. Titans fullback Ahmard Hall, who served four years in the Corps, is quietly earning a reputation as one of the top blocking backs in the NFL, as ESPN’s Len Pasquarelli writes. Hall, like most fullbacks, rarely carries the ball and…
