Education
Was selected as a United States. Army All-American and a Parade All-American. He also was first team all-state on both offensive and Defensive Lincolnshire. During his senior year, recorded 112 pancake blocks while not allowing a sack, and defensively racked up 67 tackles and 11 sacks while helping lead Liberty to a state championship.
In 2006 as a Junior He totaled 61 pancake blocks on the offensive side of the ball and recorded 34 tackles and five sacks on defense.
Habern was heavily recruited starting early in his junior year across the country receiving scholarships from Oklahoma, Arizona, Florida State, Miami (Florida), Nebraska, Notre Dame, Oklahoma State, Texas Agricultural and Mechanical, and Texas Technical).
He was regarded as one of the top offensive line prospects in the country. Major recruiting sources listed him as one of the top prospects at his position including, Number.
2 center in the nation (Entertainment and Sports Programming Network), Number. 3 center in the nation (Rivalscom), Number.
4 center in the nation (Scoutcom), and Number.
22 Texas Top 100 (Rivalscom). Ben grew up an Oklahoma Sooners fan and verbally committed to OU on April 4, 2007 ending his recruitment.
Career
He played high school football at Argyle Liberty Christian School in Argyle, Texas. Recruitment 2008 (Freshman) Received a medical redshirt after seeing action in three games (Chattanooga, Washington, Baylor) as the backup at center, suffering a Broken Toe versus Baylor. The Sooners went 12 and 2 and went on to play in the National Championship game against The Florida Gators in Miami, Florida.
2009 (Redshirt Freshman) Played in the season opener against Brigham Young University before starting the next 10 games at center.
He suffered a season-ending ankle injury at Texas Technical but was still named All-Big 12 Freshman by Entertainment and Sports Programming Network.com as well as All-Big 12 Academic second team He played 741 snaps with 70 knockdowns.
2010 (Redshirt Sophomore) Starting center for all 14 games for the Sooners. Led the offensive linemen with 1,070 snaps played and 123 knockdowns.
Habern also led the team in knockdowns in five games including a season-high 16 versus
Colorado. Beating The Connecticut Huskies 48-20. Habern was named All-Big 12 honorable mention by Associated Press. 2011 (Redshirt Junior) Starting center missed five games with an arm injury suffered against Missouri.
Returned to action versus
Texas Agricultural and Mechanical and to the starting lineup against Iowa State. Habern finished the season with 39 knockdowns on 391 snaps as Oklahoma went on to beat Iowa in the Insight Bowl 31-14. 2012 (retirement) During the Insight Bowl against Iowa Habern played most of the game with a sore neck.
After the game Habern was evaluated and learned he needed surgery to repair an injury to his neck.
In January, 2012 he had surgery to fuse together two vertebrae and after rehabbing through the summer Habern decided to retire from playing football because of his health concerns.
