David Molk

David Molk

Molk (#50) blocking for a Brandon Minor rush during the 2008 Michigan−Ohio State rivalry game
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Position:	Center
Personal information
Date of birth:	(1988-12-15) December 15, 1988 (age 28)
Place of birth:	Palos Hills, Illinois
Height:	6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)
Weight:	307 lb (139 kg)
Career information
High school:	Lemont (IL) Township
College:	Michigan
NFL Draft:	2012 / Round: 7 / Pick: 226
Career history
San Diego Chargers (2012–2013) Philadelphia Eagles (2014–2015)
Career highlights and awards
Rimington Trophy (2011) Consensus All-American (2011) Big Ten Offensive Lineman of the Year (2011) First-team All-Big Ten (2010, 2011)
Career NFL statistics
Games played: 20 Games started: 4 Player stats at NFL.com

David Molk (born December 15, 1988) is a former American football center. Molk previously played college football at the same position for University of Michigan, where he was a consensus All-American and won the 2011 Rimington Trophy as the best center in college football. He played professionally in the National Football League (NFL) for the Philadelphia Eagles, and the San Diego Chargers.

Molk grew up in the Chicago area and played high school football at Lemont Township High School. He was named an All-State player by the Chicago Tribune and was selected to play in the first East-West All-America Football Game in January 2007.

Molk enrolled at the University of Michigan in 2007. He missed portions of the 2008 and 2009 seasons with injury. As a redshirt junior in 2010, Molk was the cornerstone in an offensive line that helped Denard Robinson break the Big Ten Conference single-season record with 4,189 yards of total offense. Molk was recognized as a first-team All-Big Ten Conference player at the end of the 2010 season. As a redshirt senior in 2011, Molk anchored a line that led the way for Denard Robinson and Fitzgerald Toussaint to become Michigan's first duo of 1,000-yard rushers since 1975. At the end of the 2011 season, he won the Rimington Trophy and was a consensus first-team All-American.

Molk was selected by the San Diego Chargers in the seventh round of the 2012 NFL Draft. He appeared in 12 games, none as a starter, for the Chargers during the 2012 NFL season.

Molk was once a 5-foot-6-inch (1.68 m) 175-pound (79 kg) Lemont Township High School freshman who could only bench press 110 pounds (50 kg) and squat 250 pounds (110 kg). By the end of his junior year, he was one of the most highly recruited high school football players in the Chicago metropolitan area. By his senior season, he was a 6-foot-2-inch (1.88 m) 270-pound (120 kg) center who could bench press 370 pounds (170 kg), squat 550 pounds (250 kg) and power clean 320 pounds (150 kg). His high school gym closed at 5:00 PM and he had to go into town for extra workout time. He chose to be a center because, although he is too short to be a major Division I college football offensive guard or offensive tackle, he had the potential to be a successful center. He was actually discovered when a scout came to his school to watch a teammate. During the summer prior to his senior season, he made a verbal commitment to the University of Michigan, in part due to its business school, the Ross School of Business. At the end of his junior year he had received scholarship offers from ten schools, including six Big Ten Conference football programs.