Arik Armstead biography: 13 things about NFL player born in Sacramento, California

Arik Armstead is an American football player currently playing for the San Francisco 49ers of the National Football League. He is 6’7″ tall and he is a defensive tackle.

Armstead was born in Sacramento, California, United States to Guss Armstead and Christa Armstead. Guss is a basketball trainer.

When Christa was born, her white father, a Catholic priest, was 30 while her black mother was 18. Christa talked about being rejected at birth by her father and raised by a single mother in her memoir “Illegitimate: Memoir of a Priest’s Daughter”, which was published by Redemption Press on July 18, 2023.

In 2019, Arik and Dr. Melinda “Mindy” Harwood Armstead, a psychiatrist, founded the Armstead Academic Project. He is 3 years younger than his brother Armond Armstead, a Canadian Football League player from 2012 to 2013.

Arik attended Pleasant Grove High School in Elk Grove, California and the University of Oregon in Eugene, Oregon, USA where he played football and basketball. Here are 13 more things about him:

1. From 2012 to 2016, he attended the University of Oregon.
2. In the 2015 NFL Draft, the San Francisco 49ers selected him in the first round.
3. On November 8, 2016, the San Francisco 49ers placed him on injured reserve with a left shoulder injury.
4. On October 17, 2017, he was placed on injured reserve after suffering a broken hand.
5. On April 30, 2018, the San Francisco 49ers picked up the fifth-year option on his contract.
6. On February 19, 2019, he proposed to Mindy at the Avalon Hotel in Beverly Hills, California and she said yes.
7. On March 16, 2020, he signed a five-year, $85 million contract extension with the San Francisco 49ers with $48.5 million guaranteed.
8. On June 20, 2020, he and Mindy got married.
9. On December 7, 2021, the San Francisco 49ers nominated him for the Walter Payton NFL Man of the Year Award.
10. On October 3, 2022, he made a $250,000 donation to Mercy Housing California aimed at educating almost 300 young people.
11. On November 10, 2022, he revealed that he was rehabbing a hairline fracture in his left ankle.
12. On November 15, 2023, he turned 30.
13. On November 29, 2023, he hosted the Stay Hungry Career Camp inside Shoe Palace’s headquarters in Morgan Hill, California, which was attended by 30 high school students.