Cassius Marsh

Education

Marsh attended Oaks Christian School in Westlake Village, California.

Career

He was drafted by the Seahawks in the fourth round of the 2014 NFL Draft. He played college football at University of California, Los Los Angeles

He was ranked as 22nd defensive tackle prospect nationally by Tom Lemming/MaxPreps during high school. He was selected to the GoldenStatePreps.com All-State first team and All-SoCal first team

He was named CIF-Steamship All-Northwest Division co-Defensive Player of the Year in his junior season.

He played in the United States. Army All-America Game after high school. He recorded 83 tackles, 23 sacks, in his senior season at high school.

Entertainment and Sports Programming Network recruiting rated Cassius as a 3 star prospect being the #33 defensive tackle, and the #33 prospect in the state of California. 247 rated Cassius as a 4 star prospect being the #11 defensive tackle, and the #142 overall prospect (#114 composite ranking) regardless of position.

SCOUT rated Cassius as a 4 star prospect as well.

Many major college programs offered Cassius and it ended up coming down to University of California, Los Angeles and Louisiana State University. Ultimately Cassius chose University of California, Los Los Angeles However, Cassius had initially committed to Louisiana State University before, so Cassius actually flipped his commitment on Louisiana State University to go to University of California, Los Angeles in January 2010. Cassius" main reasoning for the change of heart was that by going to University of California, Los Angeles he would be able to be closer to home. Cassius was a very highly touted prospect.

Initially Cassius committed to play college football for Louisiana State University, but ended up changing to University of California, Los Angeles in order to stay closer to home.

On December, 2010, He was selected to the Rivals.com Pac-10 All-Freshman team in his freshman season. 2014 NFL Draft

Marsh was selected in the 4th round by the Seattle Seahawks as the 108th player overall in the 2014 NFL Draft.

Seattle Seahawks

Marsh was signed to a 4-year contract on May 19, 2014. Cassius is the son of Curtis Marsh, Senior and the half-brother of Curtis Marsh, Junior.

Curtis Senior was a wide receiver who played college football at Utah and was then drafted in the 7th round in the NFL draft in 1995 by the Jacksonville Jaguars.

Curtis Senior played three seasons in the NFL for the Jaguars (2 seasons) and Steelers (1 season) before going to Canada to play in the Canadian Football League where his career flourished and he even became a Canadian Football League All-Star in 2000. Curtis Junior. played college football at Utah State initially starting off as running back (for two seasons in 2007 and 2008) before a position change to play defensive back (for two seasons in 2009 and 2010). Curtis Junior. was a 3rd round draft pick in the 2011 NFL Draft by the Philadelphia Eagles.

Cassius was primarily raised by a single mother, Holly Ann Leblanc.

Achievements

• He was winner of University of California, Los Angeles"s John Boncheff, Junior. Memorial Award for Rookie of the Year in his Freshman season.

Membership

He was a member of PrepStar Dream Team and Tacoma News-Tribune Western 100.