Justin Houston Biography

Justin Houston (Justin Donovan Houston) is an American football linebacker for the Indianapolis Colts of the National Football League (NFL).

He played college football at the University of Georgia, where he earned All-American honors and was drafted by the Kansas City Chiefs in the third round of the 2011 NFL Draft. A four-time Pro Bowl selection, he was also named to the All-Pro team in 2014.

Justin Houston Age

Justin Donovan Houston is an American football linebacker for the Indianapolis Colts of the National Football League. He was born on January 21. 1989 in Statesboro, GA. Justin is 33 years old as of 2022.

Justin Houston Body Measurement

Mike stands at a height of 6 feet 3 inches”191 cm” tall. He has a weight of 258 pounds (117 kg). He is a giant of a man. Houston has a large scar on his chest which he had from when he was a child “he had a cyst removed from his chest”. His arm’s length is 34½ and his hand is 11.

Justin Houston Family

He was born in Chico, California. Justin was raised by a single mother and his maternal grandmother, Linda Houston after he and his siblings were abandoned by their father.

Houston mother’s name is Kimberly Houston and he has 10 siblings – eight brothers and two sisters – all of whom grew up with their mother in a small crowded house in Statesboro, Georgia.

The house was eventually razed down in a fire accident from which he saved his two younger brothers – Tylen and Aaron. Justin is a twin and the name of his twin brother is Jared Houston.

Despite having five siblings ahead of him, Houston managed to attend Statesboro High School where he played basketball and football “having developed a keen interest in sports by watching his older brothers play in the family backyard and sometimes playing with them too”.

He excelled in football and made the All-Region selection two times while also getting an All-State honorable mention. He led his school team to three consecutive State Championships between 2003 and 2005 and the won the latter by defeating Northside High School in the final in 2005.

Justin Houston Wife

Houston is married to his longtime girlfriend Johnisha Garner(lawyer). The couple joined in a warm wedding ceremony in Atlanta which had their close friends and family in attendance.

The couple had their son before their marriage but they now have another child, a daughter, which makes it two children for the lovebirds.

Justin Houston Net Worth

The Kansas City Chiefs made Justin Houston the richest linebacker in NFL history when they offered him a contract worth $101 million in 2005.

The contract was to run for six years and will pay the linebacker an average annual salary of $16.8 million dollars. Also involved in the historic deal was a $20.5 million dollars signing bonus and a $52.5 million guaranteed sum which was paid to Houston. Houston has an estimated Net Worth of $30 million dollars as of 2019.

Justin Houston Salary

Houston earns an estimated salary of about $12 million yearly.

Justin Houston Contract

The contract was to run for six years and will pay the linebacker an average annual salary of $16.8 million dollars. Also involved in the historic deal was a $20.5 million dollars signing bonus and a $52.5 million guaranteed sum which was paid to Houston.

Justin Houston High school career

He attended Class AAAA Statesboro High School in Statesboro, Georgia, where he was a two-time All-Region selection and All-State honorable mention.

Justin also played in three State Championships in 2003, 2004, and 2005. Statesboro won the State Championship in 2005 defeating Northside High School.

He was teammates with fellow Georgia recruit DeAngelo Tyson. Regarded as a four-star recruit by Rivals.com, Houston was listed as the #11 weakside defensive end in the class of 2007.

Justin Houston College career

As a sophomore at the University of Georgia in 2009, Houston was a second-team all-SEC selection after recording 7.5 sacks.

As a junior, he recorded 10 sacks, leading all linebackers in the SEC, and only second to Auburn’s Nick Fairley who had 11.5 sacks as part of the defensive line, and was a first-team all-SEC selection and an All-American.

Justin Houston House

Justin walked out of the bedroom. The door nearest to the den, as he remembers it, was engulfed in flames, with smoke billowing from underneath the frame.

He panicked and ran onto the front lawn in his T-shirt and gym shorts, only to realize he had left the boys, Tylen and Aaron, inside.

He turned around. “I couldn’t see nothing,” Houston says, “only smoke. It was dark inside. If I didn’t know that house, I would have been in trouble. We’d been there for years. I could run through that house with my eyes closed.”

So he did. Justin sprinted back inside, fighting through the smoke and flames, and found his brothers, who were too scared to move. He shepherded them outside. The clothes on their backs were the family’s only possessions that didn’t burn.

According to the Statesboro fire department incident report for case No. 23089, an alarm sounded at the station at 3:19 p.m. Firefighters could see the smoke from the firehouse, a mile-and-a-half away.

They arrived at 129 Garfield Street four minutes later and, as they later noted, “found the structure completely involved.” As in, completely on fire.

They twice asked for additional personnel; it took eight firefighters more than two hours to extinguish the blaze. The report concludes, “The residence is a complete loss.”

That record does not list a cause for the fire, but it finds that no “human factors” contributed. Houston says his family believes the blaze resulted from “some old wires in the ceiling” that sparked near the water heater on a wall in the other bedroom. The report estimates the damage at $45,000 for the residence and $15,000 for everything inside.

Afterward, local churches helped feed and clothe the Houstons while they found another place to live. The family of 10—besides Justin, Tyler and Aaron, Kimberly has nine other children, six of whom lived with her at the time—eventually settled into a house about 30 minutes outside of town.

Statesboro High and its football teams helped as well, according to one of Houston’s childhood friends, Jon Knox. But little was said about Justin’s heroics.

Justin Houston Colts

Justin Donovan Houston is an American football linebacker currently signed by the Indianapolis Colts of the National Football League.

Justin Houston Steelers

Back in 2021, Pittsburgh Steelers offered to sign Houston but instead, he chose to sign a one-year deal worth up to $4 million with the Ravens.

Justin Houston Bears

The word out there was that the Bears were going to give up more than $11 million to try and get Houston which later turned out to be nothing more than just watercooler talk.

Justin Houston Injury

Houston failed to return in the second quarter of Sunday’s Week 3 game against the Patriots after suffering a groin injury though he did recover later on.