Biography

BIOGRAPHY

Jimmy Morrissey was born June 9, 1998, in Huntingdon Valley, Pennsylvania. He attended La Salle College High School. He was named All-Philadelphia Catholic League as a junior and as a senior when he was also named All-City by the Philadelphia Daily News. Morrissey was lightly recruited coming out of high school and received no Division I FBS offers. He chose to enroll at the University of Pittsburgh as a preferred walk-on over offers from Lehigh, Bucknell, and Colgate.

Morrissey walked on to Pittsburgh's football team and redshirted his true freshman season. He was named the Panthers' starting center and awarded a scholarship going into his redshirt freshman season and started all 12 of the team's games. Morrissey started the first 11 games of his redshirt sophomore season before suffering a season-ending injury and was named third-team All-Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC). He was named first-team All-ACC as a redshirt junior. As a redshirt senior, Morrissey started all 11 of Pittsburgh's games, including one at right guard after injuries to that position, and was named second-team All-ACC and was awarded the Burlsworth Trophy as the best player in Division I football who began his college career as a walk-on

Morrissey was selected by the Raiders in the seventh round of the 2021 NFL draft.