Biography
2025: Continued his status as Presbyterian's best offensive lineman, missing just one game while being chosen for All-PFL Second Team at the left tackle position...Contributed mightily to the program's greatest season this century, winning 10 games for the third time ever and reaching as high as #16 in the AFCA Coaches Poll...With Hill in the trenches, PC ranked 16th in the nation with 413 total points scored...The Blue Hose broke numerous program records, such as rushing touchdowns (26), total rushing yards (2,124), rushing yards per game (177), and yards per play (six)...The PC offense crossed 400 yards against seven different opponents, doing so in each of the first five games which included back-to-back Southern Conference upsets over #11 Mercer and Furman in overtime...Presby began the fall 7-0, averaging 464 yards per game during that streak and getting into the end zone 39 times...Hill helped the Scotsmen go undefeated at Bailey Memorial Stadium in six attempts, the program's most efficient home record in 27 years while averaging 45 points per game in those meetings...Presbyterian hit 5,000 yards of total offense and surrendered just 1.5 sacks per game, ranking inside the country's top 30 in both categories...Hill and co. produced at least one rushing TD in every game except one, running for nearly 800 yards over a three-game window against Bluefield, Morehead State, and Stetson...In the Morehead win, PC averaged nine yards per rush which is the second-most over a single game since the school turned Division I in the late 2000's.
2024: Followed up a fantastic freshman year by again being selected for an All-Pioneer Football League Honorable Mention shoutout, starting the last 11 games of the season at right tackle...Aided a Presbyterian offense that took a large leap forward, averaging 153 rushing yards per game and collecting over 4,600 total yards...Part of a crew that won its final four games of the season in mostly convincing fashion, averaging 479 total yards in that stretch and accomplishing PC's first four-game winning streak in 17 years...The Blue Hose produced over 180 yards on the ground five times and passed for at least 250 yards on six occasions with Hill's contributions, ending the season with a monumental win over #23 Butler at Bailey Memorial Stadium (the school's first W over a nationally-ranked opponent in a full decade)...Presby eviscerated Stetson in Florida to start the aforementioned winning streak, logging 329 rushing yards to set a school single-game record against a Division I counterpart...PC won all of their games in the month of November for the first time since 2002, rushing for 288 additional yards in the Butler victory.
2023: Wasted no time in asserting himself as a consistent presence in the Blue Hose offensive line, starting all 11 games as a true freshman on his way to an All-PFL Honorable Mention plaudit...Was partially responsible for an offense that accumulated over 3,600 total yards (a 300-yard increase from the prior campaign), going for seven different showings of a minimum 100 yards on the ground alone...Blocked for a squad that found two 300-yard passing outcomes, an essential piece for a unit that averaged 329 total yards per contest.
Prior to PC:Â J.T. Hill joins the PC program out of Highland Community College, spending his prep career at Brookwood High School in Snellville, Georgia...The son of Jeff Hill, the 6'4" newcomer plans for an Education major once arriving at Presbyterian with the ambition of a coaching career in the future.