page_title: Geoff Schwartz
section_title: Personal life
hierarchical_section_title: Geoff Schwartz / Personal life
caption_attribution_description: English: Mitchell Schwartz, a player on the National Football League.
context_page_description: Geoffrey Isaiah Schwartz is a former American football offensive guard in the National Football League and author. He was drafted by the Carolina Panthers in the seventh round of the 2008 NFL Draft, and played for them from 2008-11. He has also played for the Minnesota Vikings, Kansas City Chiefs, New York Giants and Detroit Lions. Schwartz played college football at the University of Oregon, for the Oregon Ducks. He started for three years at right tackle, and in his senior year was a second-team All-Pac-10 selection.
context_section_description: Schwartz married in March 2014. Schwartz was co-author of Eat My Schwartz: Our Story of NFL Football, Food, Family, and Faith with his brother, Mitchell. It was published on September 6, 2016. He currently works as a writer for SB Nation and hosts his own podcast titled Block'em Up.
  His brother, offensive tackle Mitchell Schwartz, was a second-round pick and currently plays in the NFL for the Kansas City Chiefs.  Geoff is the older of the two, an inch taller, and 20 pounds heavier.  Geoff credits an excess of matzah ball soup and latkes for their size.
  Schwartz is "proud to be a role model to young Jewish kids and athletes, letting them know it's possible for them to reach their goals."  “We can’t have a minyan,” referring to the Jewish requirement of 10 Jewish adults to conduct a service. Geoff and Mitchell are the first Jewish brothers to play in the NFL since Ralph Horween and Arnold Horween in 1923.
  
  His father, speaking of the fact that he has two sons playing in the National Football League, said: "I just kvell."  His mother, commenting on having two sons play football, said: 
  I started out worrying that they were going to get hurt, but then I realized it was the other players I should be worrying about. They were like trucks hitting small cars.  And I started to kind of feel like maybe this was their destiny.
caption: Geoff Schwartz's brother, Mitchell Schwartz, offensive tackle for the Kansas City Chiefs
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