Baas at 49ers training camp, August 2010
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Position: | Guard / Center | ||||||
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Date of birth: | September 28, 1981 | ||||||
Place of birth: | Bixby, Oklahoma | ||||||
Height: | 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) | ||||||
Weight: | 312 lb (142 kg) | ||||||
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High school: | Sarasota (FL) Riverview | ||||||
College: | Michigan | ||||||
NFL Draft: | 2005 / Round: 2 / Pick: 33 | ||||||
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Games played: | 122 |
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Games started: | 84 |
Player stats at NFL.com |
David Andrew Baas (born September 28, 1981) is a former American football center. He played college football for the University of Michigan, and was recognized as a consensus All-American and the top college center. The San Francisco 49ers selected him in the second round of the 2005 NFL Draft, and he was a member of the New York Giants' Super Bowl XLVI championship team against the New England Patriots.
Baas was born in Bixby, Oklahoma. He attended Riverview High School in Sarasota, Florida, and was a letterman in high school football and track and field for the Riverview Rams. In football, he was awarded USA Today All-USA honors. During his junior year, he recorded a school record 70 pancake blocks.
Baas attended the University of Michigan, where he played for coach Lloyd Carr's Michigan Wolverines football team from 2001 to 2004. He earned first-team All-Big Ten Conference honors three times. He started at left guard until the middle of his senior season, when he was moved to center. As a senior in 2004, he was the Hugh H. Rader awardee as the Wolverines' best offensive lineman, a finalist for the Outland Trophy, given to college football's best interior lineman, and a co-recipient of the Rimington Trophy, awarded to college football's top center. He was also recognized as a consensus first-team All-American in 2004. He majored in general studies.