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57 JONAS MOUTONInside Linebacker Draft 2B - ’116-2, 240 Michigan2nd NFL SeasonVenice HS2nd with ChargersLos Angeles, Calif.The Chargers were looking for big contributions whenthey drafted Jonas Mouton in the second round in 2011,but a shoulder injury in the preseason curtailed a promisingstart to his career.Mouton’s shoulder has recovered and now he’s hopingto follow in the footsteps of another inside linebacker andhigh draft pick, Donald Butler. Just like Mouton, Butler wasselected high - picked in the third round in 2010 - but healso suffered an early injury, rupturing his Achilles tendonduring training camp. Butler missed the entire ’10 season,but he came back and started all 16 games in 2011. Moutonhopes to pen a similar story.TRANSACTION HISTORY: Second-round pick (61), April 29,2011...signed four-year contract, July 28, 2011.2011: Injured shoulder during preseason...placed on“Reserve-Injured” list Sept. 22.Mouton was the Big Ten Conference’s top tackler (117)as a fifth-year senior at Michigan in 2010. He recorded animpressive 264 total tackles as a three-year starter for theWolverines and the Los Angeles native was a second-teamAll-Big Ten choice in 2010, also receiving the Wolverines’Roger Zatkoff Award as the team’s top linebacker.Mouton came from Venice High School, where he wasone of school’s best-ever players. On the first snap of hisfirst-ever high school game, Mouton knocked out a playerfrom rival Carson High. And in college he was given thenickname “The Assassin” after several of the Wolverines’foes met a similar fate.totals include 44 games played and 34 starts, 264 tackles, 18tackles for loss (-56 yards), three sacks (-28 yards), four interceptions,three fumble recoveries and seven passes defensed...redshirted as freshman in 2006...played at Michigan from2007-10...general studies degree.VETERANS &RETURNING PLAYERSCOLLEGE: Selected as game captain three times duringsenior season, including finale vs. rival Ohio State...final careerPERSONAL: Born in Los Angeles, Calif.....Army All-AmericaBowl participant after stellar career at Venice (Calif.) High.MEDIA GUIDE | 89