His brother, offensive guard Geoff, played in the NFL for four different teams. Additionally, his parents wanted him to instead focus on studying for his Bar Mitzvah. When he started the ninth grade, he was already 6 feet 5 inches (1.96 m) tall and 240 pounds (110 kg), too big for the size restrictions of the local Pop Warner youth leagues. Schwartz didn't start playing football until he was a freshman in high school. Schwartz and his brother Geoff authored the book Eat my Schwartz: Our Story of NFL Football, Food, Family, and Faith. Schwartz is Jewish, and was raised in Conservative Judaism. He is the son of Lee Schwartz, a business consultant to manufacturing companies, and Olivia Goodkin, an attorney. Schwartz was born in Pacific Palisades, California and grew up in West Los Angeles. He has started over 120 consecutive games, and had 7,894 consecutive snaps (which made him the active iron man leader in the snaps category). In 2019 he was named to the CBS Sports' NFL All-Decade Team.
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Following the 2018 season, he was named the winner of the Pro Football Focus Matthews Award, given out by the organization to their highest-rated offensive lineman each year, and was named a First-team All-Pro by the Associated Press. He signed with the Kansas City Chiefs in 2015.
He was named to the Pro Football Focus (PFF) 2012 All-Rookie Team, lauded for his "top-notch pass blocking", and to the 2014 PFF All-Third Year Team. He also earned honorable mention Pac-10 All-Academic (2008–10), and the Brick Muller Award as Cal's Most Valuable Offensive Lineman (2009–11), for three seasons each. He was named second-team All- Pac-10 as a junior, and first-team All- Pac-12 and Pac-12 All-Academic as a senior. He started all 51 games possible from 2008–11, at either left tackle or right tackle. Schwartz played college football at the University of California, Berkeley. Schwartz was drafted by the Cleveland Browns in the second round (37th overall) of the 2012 NFL Draft. Mitchell Bryan Schwartz (born June 8, 1989) is a former American football offensive tackle who played nine seasons in the National Football League (NFL).
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Theirs is an inspiring story not just for every football fan but for everybody wanting to figure out what it takes for dreams to come true-and how to stay well-fed throughout the process.Schwartz with the Kansas City Chiefs in 2017 In Eat My Schwartz, Geoff and Mitch talk about the things that have made them the extraordinary people that they are: their close-knit and supportive family, their Jewish faith and traditions, their love of the game and drive for excellence and, last but not least, the food they love to eat, whether at home or on the road.
Despite all that, they wound up at top-tier college programs and became the first Jewish brothers in the league since 1923. They started their football careers late, not playing a down of organized football until they joined their low-key high school program.
Geoff and Mitchell Schwartz are the NFL’s most improbable pair of offensive linemen. The first Jewish brothers in the NFL since 1923 take readers inside their lives and into the locker rooms in a revealing book on football, food, family, and faith.
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