{"id":33175,"date":"2025-05-08T07:57:19","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T07:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/33175\/"},"modified":"2025-05-08T07:57:19","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T07:57:19","slug":"get-to-know-new-rams-dl-ty-hamilton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/33175\/","title":{"rendered":"Get to know new Rams DL Ty Hamilton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Appeared in all 55 games for Ohio State from 2021 through 2024<\/p>\n<p>Hamilton was as dependable as they come for the Buckeyes, appearing in every game possible over the past four seasons. He played at least 235 defensive snaps in each year, according to PFF, along with 15-plus special teams snaps.<\/p>\n<p>\n  Assistant coach for a middle school flag football team in 2021<\/p>\n<p>Not only did Hamilton take time out of his busy schedule as a student-athlete to <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/the-beast\/2025\/player\/ty_hamilton-defensive_tackle-AVNPGdCvdyCUak8R\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">coach a middle school flag football team<\/a>, but he helped them to a championship in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>\n  Played running back as a kid<\/p>\n<p>Growing up, Hamilton idolized Hall of Fame running back LaDainian Tomlinson before a growth spurt in seventh grade, after which he switched to defensive end and linebacker, <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/the-beast\/2025\/player\/ty_hamilton-defensive_tackle-AVNPGdCvdyCUak8R\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">according to his bio in The Athletic&#8217;s draft guide by Dane Brugler<\/a>. He eventually transitioned again to the interior defensive line, where he played in college.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Appeared in all 55 games for Ohio State from 2021 through 2024 Hamilton was as dependable as they&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33176,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2060],"tags":[7,6743,212,125,2401,213,6,15,2175],"class_list":{"0":"post-33175","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville-jaguars","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-get-to-know","10":"tag-jacksonville","11":"tag-jacksonville-jaguars","12":"tag-jacksonvillejaguars","13":"tag-jaguars","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-nfl-draft","16":"tag-ty-hamilton"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114471150981121180","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}