Clay Mathews Biography
Clay Mathews is an American former professional football player who played in the National Football League as an outside linebacker for 11 seasons. He was selected for the Pro Bowl six times and for All-Pro two times. Mathews played majorly with the Green Bay Packers and was later traded to Los Angeles Ram for a two-year contract in March 2009. He also made a record for the Green Bay Packers as an all-time official quarterback sack leader. The green Bakers drafted him in the 2009 NFL draft in the 26th round of one.
Clay Mathews Age
Mathews was born on May 14, 1986, in Northridge, Los Angeles, California, in the USA.
Clay Mathews Height
Mathews stands at the height of 6 feet and 3 inches tall.
Clay Mathews Education
Mathews completed his high school diploma from Agoura High School in Agoura Hills, California. Matthew enrolled at the University of Southern California as a walk-on student-athlete under head coach Pete Carroll playing from 2004 and 2008 for Trojan. At USC, he became a standout special-teams player. As a result, he won three Special Teams, Player of the Year awards consecutively from 2006 to 2008. During those years, he also played reserve outside linebacker before moving into a starting role his senior season. Mathews was a part of three Pac-10 Championship teams during his college career.
Clay Mathews Nationality
Mathews is of American nationality.
Clay Mathews Ethnicity
Mathews belongs to the White ethnicity.
Clay Mathews Parents
Clay is the son of Clay Mathews Jr and Leslie Mathews. His father is a former professional football player as a linebacker. Clay Matthews Jr. is Clay Mathews Sr’s son, and Daizy Mathews is his mother. He is a 6’2 former professional footballer who played in the National Football League for 19 seasons, beginning his career after being drafted in the 1978 Draft in the first round by Cleveland Browns. Mathews played for Cleveland Browns from 1978-1993 and was traded to Atlanta Falcons from 1994- 1996. He played 278 games in total and has been ranked 17 among the most games by players in NFL.
His family has a history of professional football players, including his uncle, Bruce Matthews. As well as two cousins involved in football: Kevin Matthews, Jake Matthews, and Mike Matthews
Clay Mathews Siblings
Clay Matthews has four siblings, three brothers, and one sister. His two older brothers, Kyle Mathews and Brian Mathews, were both members of National Championship teams during their time with USC Trojans football. However, Kyle is currently in the real estate business in California, and Brian is into real estate in Ohio. His brother is a retired hall-of Famer linebacker, Casey Matthews. His sister, Jennifer, is regularly featured on NFL Network discussing fantasy football.
Clay Mathews Wife
Clay Matthews is married to his longtime girlfriend, Casey Noble. They have been married since 2015. Matthews and Casey were first spotted together at a hockey game in 2013 after keeping their relationship out of the limelight.
Noble is the host of HGTV airing Design on a Dime. She kicked off her design career after graduating from George Mason University. She got her first gig as a computer graphics artist in Washington, D.C. Later, she moved to California and enrolled at The Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising to pursue interior design.
Before Mathew married Noble, he was in a romantic relationship with Kristi Stalter, a fashion model.
Clay Mathews Children
Noble and Matthews are blessed with two children. Their firstborn is a baby boy William Clay Matthews IV, born in 2015. A daughter Madeline Joy Matthews born in 2016, and their last born, who they welcomed in 2019, Colton Mathews.
Clay Mathews National Football League
Matthews was considered a top prospect for the 2009 NFL Draft and was selected by the Green Bay Packers 26 overall in the first draft round from the pistons trade. On the fifth of October 2009, he scored his first professional score on a Monday Night Football playing against the Minnesota Vikings. In Week 13, he was rewarded with the NFC Defensive Player of the Week Honor due to making good games in his young vocation.
During his rookie season, he made extensive records; 51 handles, ten sacks, seven pass redirections, three mishandled recuperations, and a constrained bungle. Within the same year, he set the Packer standard for most sacks in a season by a tenderfoot, with 10.0 points, and was nominated and honored as the NFC Defensive Rookie of the year.
The 2010 season, marked his second year where he completed the season with 13.5 sacks ranking fourth in the group, 60 handles, two constrained bumbles, four pass avoidances, and a capture attempt, and he played 15 games.
In 2011, he completed the season with profession low six sacks and 50 handles despite being out most of the same, managing to play 15 of the 16 games. He was nominated the second time consecutively on the Pro Bowl NFC list as well as to the All-Pro group without precedent for his vocation recording a vocation-high 55.0 quarterback pressures. Furthermore, he was named the SN-NFL Defensive Player of the Year and NFC Defensive Player of the Year and was honored with the Butkus Award. His position was moved from LOLB to the ROLB position.
During the off-season and preparation for the 2012 season, Sporting News listed him as the second-best external linebacker, Cowboys’ star DeMarcus Ware being the first in the group.
In the 2012 season, he began recording high scores against the NFC champion San Francisco 49ers, recording 2.5 sacks in the 30–22 season opener misfortune. Later while playing against the Chicago Bears, he recorded a vocation high 3.5 sacks. He completed that season with a record of 13.0 sacks, listed fifth in the association, 43 handles, two passes guarded, and a constrained bumble.
In the 2013 season, he played just 11 games, recording a group high 7.5 sacks, 41 handles, and three constrained bungles. On October 6, week five into the season, while matching up with the Detroit Lions, he broke his right thumb and missed the following four games of the season.
In the 2014 season, he completed 11 sacks, nine passes guarded, one attempted block, and two constrained mishandles. Matthews began each game during the customary season Without precedent for his NFL vocation.
In the 2015 season, he played a significant role in leading his group to the NFC Divisional Round season finisher game against the Arizona Cardinals. Still, he lost the game in overtime on a score of 26–20. He was listed 57th position on the Top 100 Players of 2016 by the NFL. He was amongst the participants featured in The Dark Side: an Al Jazeera narrative on unlawful execution upgrading drug use known as Secrets of the Sports Dopers.
In 2016, He began nine games and played 12 games where he recorded 20 solo handles, making a total of 24 handles and one constrained bobble. During the season, he was ranked 82nd on the NFL Top 100 Players by his companions.
On 28th September 2017, he set history as the Packers’ unsurpassed sacks pioneer while playing the Week 4 game against the Chicago Bears after he fired Mike Glennon, the Bears quarterback.
In the 2018 season, while matching up with the Minnesota Vikings, Mathews was required a dubious roughing the passer punishment that invalidated a capture with 1:37 left in the final quarter; due to that, the game finished as a tie 29–29.
His contract ended after the 2018 season, and he became an unlimited free specialist. He landed a two-year contract with the Los Angeles Rams on nineteenth March 2019, which was to end on March 19, 2020. He made his play with the team in Week 1, matching up with the Carolina Panthers, recording three handles and terminating Cam Newton once, and leading the Rams to a win of 30–27. In Week 5, Matthews experienced a messed up jaw and underwent a medical procedure that led to missing three games for the season. On nineteenth March 2020, his contract with the Rams ended, and the Rams released him, and he didn’t join or play during the 2020 season for any team.
Clay Mathews Retirement
On September 29th, he announced that his playing days were over in an interview on Tuesday with Packers Wire.
Despite having a few other offers after the 2020 season, he declined. He and his family had just moved to L.A. and welcomed their third child amidst the COVID pandemic. Factoring in all the issues, he focused on the next chapter of his life, mainly aimed at being a dad and spending most of his time with the family and made the decision to retire.
Clay Mathews Networth
Mathews has a net worth of approximately USD 40 Million.
Clay Mathews Instagram
Matthews III (@claymatthews52)