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<a href="/biography/michael-oher">Michael Jerome Oher</a> is a retired American football <a href="/biography/michael-oher">offensive tackle</a> who spent eight seasons with the Baltimore Ravens in the National Football League (NFL). <a href="/biography/michael-lewis">Michael Lewis</a>' 2006 book The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game chronicles Oher's life from his senior year of high school to his freshman year of college. His story was adapted into the Academy Award-winning 2009 film The Blind Side.

<h2>Background</h2>

<a href="/biography/michael-oher">Michael Jerome Williams, Jr.</a> was <a href="/biography/michael-oher">one</a> of Denise Oher's 12 children, born in Memphis, Tennessee, on May 28, 1986. His mother battled alcoholism and crack addiction, while his father, <a href="/biography/michael-oher">Michael Jerome Williams</a>, spent a lot of time in jail. During his childhood, he received minimal attention and discipline. During his first nine years as a student, he repeated first and second grades and attended eleven different schools. At the age of seven, he was placed in foster care and spent time in numerous foster homes and streets. Denise Oher's brother was a former cellmate of Oher's father, who was murdered in jail when Oher was a <a href="/biography/michael-oher">senior</a> in high school.

Oher was a <a href="/biography/michael-oher">football player</a> during his freshman year at a Memphis public high school. On the advice of Tony Henderson, an auto technician with whom he was temporarily living, he sought admission to Briarcrest Christian School. Henderson was enrolling his son in the school to fulfill his grandmother's dying desire, and Oher assumed he would as well. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Freeze">Hugh Freeze</a>, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Freeze">football coach</a> at the school, forwarded Oher's application to the headmaster, who agreed to accept him if he first completed a home study program. He did not meet the program but was enrolled once the headmaster realized that Oher had been dismissed from the public school system due to his need.

<h2>Relationships</h2>

Although a lot has been said about Michael Oher's football career in various books and online content, none of his biographies talk about his personal life. There is no information about his married life or any children.

<h2>Life Story in Media</h2>

In 2006, Michael Oher was the subject of <a href="/biography/michael-lewis">Michael Lewis</a>'s book The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game. The book was adapted into a feature film directed by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lee_Hancock">John Lee Hancock</a>. The movie was released in November of 2009. Even though the film was a major box office hit, Michael believes it harmed his career, "I'm not trying to prove anything. People look at me, and they take things away from me because of a movie. They don't see the skills and the kind of player I am. That's why I get downgraded so much, because of something off the field. This stuff, calling me a bust, people saying if I can play or not, has nothing to do with football. It's something else off the field. That's why I don't like that movie.''

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During the 2012 Super Bowl media day, Oher commented about Blind Side, "I'm tired of the movie. I'm here to play football." The Blind Side film made over $300 million from its theatrical run. The lead <a href="/biography/sandra-bullock">actress</a> <a href="/biography/sandra-bullock">Sandra Bullock</a> won an Oscar and a Golden Globe Award to portray a good-natured white mother who adopted a homeless black teenager. The plot of the film was based on Michael's rough childhood. The film implied that the white mother got Oher into football and helped him accomplish his dream of playing in the NFL after he became a first-round draft pick (23rd overall) by the Baltimore Ravens in 2009.

Michael Oher wrote his autobiography I Beat the Odds: From Homelessness to The Blind Side in 2011. Another book about his life was released a year earlier, which was co-authored by the Touhy family and titled In a Heartbeat: Sharing the Power of Cheerful Giving.

<h2>Career</h2>

Michael Oher was the starting left <a href="/biography/michael-oher">tackle</a> of the Baltimore Ravens when they won the NFL Super Bowl in 2012. After a successful run with the Baltimore Ravens, Oher signed a five-year, $20 million deal with the Tennessee Titans in 2014. Unfortunately, he had to be released during the offseason because of a toe injury.

Michael Oher's NFL football career ended when the veteran offensive tackle was released from the Carolina Panthers with a failed physical in June 2017. The contract move allowed the Panthers to open up $1.69 million under their salary cap. The transaction was not a surprise because Oher had missed most of the previous season after suffering a concussion in Week 3.

The Carolina Panthers <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Rivera">coach</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Rivera">Ron Rivera</a> stated that the move intended to get Michael back to good health, "Michael's health always came first. We were not going to force the issue. Michael understood, and we expressed that to him."

Some of the football press speculated that the release was a political move because it came two days after Oher passionately defended an employee who had spent four seasons with the team. The release was also a day before the beginning of his pending misdemeanor assault trial in Tennessee.

Before his release, Oher eventually reported to training camp in June after missing organized team activities. He expressed fear on the social media platform Instagram about concussion symptoms he experienced in the prior season. His somber quote was, "The Brain is a scary thing. You have to be careful with it." The Carolina coach claimed that the GM was "taking care of" Oher's role with the team during training camp.

His current estimated net worth is around $20 million.

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