John youboty biography

Liberian gridiron football player and coach (born 1984)

American football player

Ashton Youboty^[1] (born 7 July 1984) is a Liberian coach of American football and former cornerback. He played college football for the Ohio State Buckeyes for coach Jim Tressel from 2003 to 2006 and played in the National Football League (NFL) for six seasons from 2006 to 2011. He forwent his senior season and was selected by the Buffalo Bills in the third round (70 overall) of the 2006 NFL draft.^[2] After five seasons with the Bills (2006–2010), he played for the Jacksonville Jaguars in 2011.

Early life

Youboty was born in Monrovia, Liberia, the oldest of four children for Jeannet Waylee Youboty. After a civil war broke out in his native country, his family settled in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he attended Girard College, a college-prep boarding school for single-parent kids and low-income families. Girard did not have a football team due to lack o