Hayes Pullard

Hayes Pullard is a 6-2, 225-pound Athlete from Los Angeles, CA. He is ranked No. 229 in the country by 247Sports.

Pullard is the No. 33 recruit in California (CA) and is the No. 16 Athlete in the nation.

Pullard has a 247Sports rating of 91, making him a 4-star prospect.

2012: The steady Pullard, an All-American candidate who could receive Butkus Award consideration, returns for his second year as the starting weakside linebacker as a sophomore in 2012 after a nice debut in 2011 when he was the Trojans' tackle co-leader.

2011: Pullard, who had an eye-opening showing in 2011 spring practice, continued his impressive play while starting all of his 2011 redshirt freshman season at weakside linebacker. Overall in 2011 while starting all 12 games, he tied for the team lead in tackles with 81, including 6.5 for losses (with 4 sacks), plus he had 2 deflections and 2 forced fumbles. He and fellow linebacker Dion Bailey were the first freshmen to lead USC in tackles since records were first kept in 1954. He made 2011 All-Pac-12 honorable mention. He made the 2011 CollegeFootballNews.com Freshman All-American first team and YahooSports.com and Phil Steele Freshman All-American second team. He won USC's 2011 Bob Chandler Award.

He had a team-high 8 tackles (with 1.5 for losses, including 0.5 sack) against Minnesota, then a team-best 8 tackles, including a sack, and a deflection against Utah. He had 7 tackles (1 for a loss) against Syracuse, 1 tackles at Arizona State, 5 tackles against Arizona and 7 tackles and a forced fumble at California. He had a team-best 8 tackles at Notre Dame, 6 tackles against Stanford, 1 tackle at Colorado and 7 tackles against Washington. He had a game-best 14 tackles, with 2 sacks, and a forced fumble at Oregon to earn Pac-12 Defensive Player of the Week honors, then had 9 tackles (including a sack) and a deflection against UCLA.

2010: Pullard redshirted as a freshman linebacker in 2010, his first year at USC. He was sidelined the first half of the season with a knee sprain.