Justice Hill

BIOGRAPHY

Justice Hill was born on November 14th, 1997, in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He is a running back in the National Football League.

Hill attended Booker T. Washington High School where as a senior, he helped lead the team to a 10-1 season with an appearance in the state semifinals and was an all-state selection and the 6A-II offensive player of the year. He had 198 carries for 1,948 yards and 32 touchdowns, adding 12 catches for 103 yards. As a junior, he totaled 1,426 yards and 22 touchdowns on 219 carries with an average of 6.5 yards per carry and 142.6 yards per game.

After he finished high school, Hill committed to the University of Oklahoma where as a freshman in 2016, he produced the top freshman rushing season in Oklahoma State history with 1,142 yards. His 1,142 yards led all FBS freshmen in 2016 and surpassed the OSU freshman rushing record set by Mike Hamilton in 2005 with 961 yards and the OSU true freshman season mark that was set by Thurman Thomas in 1984 with 843 yards, and became the fifth-most for a freshman in Big 12 Conference history. In addition to being the only OSU freshman to ever surpass 1,000 rushing yards in a season, he is the only freshman in school history to rush for 100 yards in six games. Hill played in all 13 games and started the final 10 becoming the only OSU true freshman to start a game during the season and one of just nine to play at all. As a sophomore in 2017, Hill earned CoSIDA Academic All-America first-team honors and was one of 10 national semifinalists for the Doak Walker Award presented to the nation’s top running back and a first-team All-Big 12 honoree by both the coaches and the Associated Press. He was a first-team Academic All-Big 12 Selection as well, making him one of only five players in the league in 2017 who appeared as a first-team selection to both the All-Big 12 team and the Academic All-Big 12 team and also earned CoSIDA Academic All-District honors. His 1,467 rushing yards led the Big 12 by a wide margin, as the league’s second-leading rusher had 1,146, and were ranked second among FBS sophomores. Hill led the Big 12 in rushing yards with 1,467, rushing yards per game with 112.8, rushing attempts with 268 and rushing touchdowns with 15.

After he graduated from college, Hill entered the 2019 NFL Draft where he was selected in the fourth round by the Baltimore Ravens. In Week 1 of the 2019 season, he made his NFL debut in the Ravens' 59–10 victory over the Miami Dolphins, recording 7 carries for 27 yards.