Montez Sweat

Shaquan Montez Sweat (born September 4, 1996) is an American football outside linebacker for the Washington Redskins of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Mississippi State, and was drafted by the Redskins in the first round of the 2019 NFL Draft.

Pre-professional career
Sweat attended Stephenson High School in Stone Mountain, Georgia, where he was rated as one of the top tight ends in the country. After graduating high school, Sweat committed to the Michigan State Spartans, where he played in two games for them in 2014. He left Michigan State in 2016, enrolling at Copiah-Lincoln Community College in Mississippi. There, Sweat was ranked the 24th best junior college recruit in 2017 by 247 sports and then committed to Mississippi State over offers from LSU and Texas A&M.

In his first season at Mississippi State in 2017, Sweat registered 10.5 sacks and was a consensus All-SEC pick.

Professional career
At the 2019 NFL Combine, Montez set a combine record for a defensive lineman running the 40 yard dash at 4.41 seconds. At the same time, Sweat was reportedly diagnosed with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, prompting some teams to remove him from their draft boards. Despite that, Sweat was selected by the Washington Redskins in the first round, 26th overall, of the 2019 NFL Draft. The team traded back up into the first round to select him after using their original pick on Dwayne Haskins. He signed his four-year rookie contract on May 29, 2019.