Marqise Lee

Marqise Lee

Lee at 2014 Jacksonville Jaguars training camp
No. 11 Jacksonville Jaguars
Position:	Wide receiver
Personal information
Date of birth:	(1991-11-25) November 25, 1991 (age 25)
Place of birth:	Long Beach, California
Height:	6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)
Weight:	200 lb (91 kg)
Career information
High school:	Gardena (CA) Junípero Serra
College:	Southern California
NFL Draft:	2014 / Round: 2 / Pick: 39
Career history
Jacksonville Jaguars (2014–present)
Roster status:	Active
Career highlights and awards
Biletnikoff Award (2012) Unanimous All-American (2012) Pac-12 Offensive Player of the Year (2012) First-team All-Pac-12 (2012) Second-team All-Pac-12 (2011) Pac-12 Offensive Freshman of the Year (2011)
Career NFL statistics as of Week 17, 2016
Receptions: 115 Receiving yards: 1,464 Receiving touchdowns: 5 Total return yards: 548 Total return touchdowns: 1 Player stats at NFL.com

Marqise Lee (born November 25, 1991) is an American football wide receiver for the Jacksonville Jaguars of the National Football League (NFL). He was drafted by the Jaguars in the second round of the 2014 NFL Draft. He played college football at USC, where he was the 2012 Biletnikoff Award winner as the nation's top receiver and a unanimous All-American.

Both of Lee's parents, Elton Lee and Anfernee Williams, are deaf; he communicates with them via sign language. Lee had a difficult childhood. His father was not regularly involved in his life. Lee spent the first twelve years of his life moving repeatedly between his mother and grandparents, both in low-income homes. The frequent moves forced him to repeat a grade early in elementary school. While Lee finished sixth grade, his grandfather died and his grandmother moved to the housing projects in Baldwin Village, Los Angeles; Lee and his younger sister chose not to move with her and instead became wards of the state. His two older brothers were involved in gangs: one, Terreal Reid, was murdered in a gang-related killing and the other, Donte Reid, was imprisoned in Arizona on a count of attempted murder. Lee previously tried to join the same gang, but his brothers prevented it. His sister still lives in the Los Angeles area.

When Lee started high school at Morningside High School, in Inglewood, California, he was living in a foster home. Lee played on an Amateur Athletic Union basketball team the summer after his freshman year of high school and became friends with Steven Hester Jr., a high school student from Inglewood attending the private Junípero Serra High School in Gardena, California. The Hester family liked Lee and, in September 2008, he moved in with them and began attending Serra. The family wanted to help Lee's younger sister, too, but were unable because of space and financial constraints. The Hesters became heavily involved in his life and continue to attend most of his games and practices at USC.