# Mike Morton (linebacker)

Michael Anthony Morton (born March 28, 1972) is a National Football League (NFL) official and former American football linebacker. Morton played college football for the University of North Carolina Tar Heels and went on to play for four teams in a seven-year NFL career. He was drafted in the fourth round of the 1995 NFL Draft. During his NFL career. Morton played in 103 games (17 starts) and recorded 120 tackles, 50 assists, four fumble recoveries, and two interceptions. He was a member of the 1999 St. Louis Rams team that won Super Bowl XXXIV in January 2000.
Pre-draft measurables :
| Height | Weight | Arm length | Hand span | 40-yard dash | 10-yard split | 20-yard split | 20-yard shuttle | Vertical jump | Broad jump | Bench press |
| 6 ft 3+3⁄4 in (1.92 m) | 231 lb (105 kg) | 30+3⁄4 in (0.78 m) | 9+7⁄8 in (0.25 m) | 4.74 s | 1.74 s | 2.83 s | 4.25 s | 34.5 in (0.88 m) | 9 ft 5 in (2.87 m) | 16 reps |
Since his retirement from playing in the NFL, Morton has become a dentist and has opened his practice in Kannapolis, North Carolina.
Morton has been a football official since at least 2014, working in the Atlantic Coast Conference. As of 2019, Morton is also an official in the Alliance of American Football, working as an umpire on the crew led by referee Brandon Cruse. Morton worked his first NFL game on September 11, 2022, when the Atlanta Falcons hosted the New Orleans Saints, making him the first NFL official that also won a Super Bowl as a player. He works on Alex Kemp's crew.
In 2025 Morton was named to the officiating crew for Super Bowl LIX. He will be the first to officiate a Super Bowl after having won one as a player, and the second to officiate a Super Bowl after playing in one (joining Terry Killens).
Morton and his wife are the parents of a son, as well as quadruplets.

## NFL career statistics

Legend :
| | Won the Super Bowl |
| Bold | Career high |

### Regular season

| Year | Team | Games | Games | Tackles | Tackles | Tackles | Tackles | Interceptions | Interceptions | Interceptions | Interceptions | Fumbles | Fumbles | Fumbles | Fumbles |
| Year | Team | GP | GS | Comb | Solo | Ast | Sck | Int | Yds | TD | Lng | FF | FR | Yds | TD |
| 1995 | OAK | 12 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1996 | OAK | 16 | 6 | 43 | 29 | 14 | 1.0 | 2 | 13 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1997 | OAK | 11 | 11 | 75 | 52 | 23 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1998 | OAK | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 1999 | STL | 16 | 0 | 25 | 19 | 6 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2000 | GNB | 16 | 0 | 15 | 8 | 7 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2001 | IND | 16 | 0 | 22 | 13 | 9 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| | | 103 | 17 | 183 | 124 | 59 | 1.0 | 2 | 13 | 0 | 13 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 |

### Playoffs

| Year | Team | Games | Games | Tackles | Tackles | Tackles | Tackles | Interceptions | Interceptions | Interceptions | Interceptions | Fumbles | Fumbles | Fumbles | Fumbles |
| Year | Team | GP | GS | Comb | Solo | Ast | Sck | Int | Yds | TD | Lng | FF | FR | Yds | TD |
| 1999 | STL | 3 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| | | 3 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |