TRANSACTIONS: Signed with the Rams (7/27/11)...signed a four-year contract extension in July 2013 to extend his contract into 2017...signed a contact extension in the 2018 offseason.
PRO: Ninth-year pro has played in all 128 regular season games of his career...tallied 1,159 clean snaps through first eight seasons...has made 10 tackles on special teams...received Pro Bowl honors in 2016 and 2017.
2018 SEASON: Played in all 16 regular season games and three postseason contests, including Super Bowl LIII...added one special teams tackle on the season...at Oakland (9/10): Saw action at long snapper and recorded 10 clean snaps...added one special teams tackle...at San Francisco (10/21): Saw action at long snapper...tallied 11 clean snaps...vs. Green Bay (10/28): Saw action at long snapper...logged 10 clean snaps...vs. Kansas City (11/19): Saw action at long snapper...compiled a season-high 13 clean snaps...vs. San Francisco (12/30): Saw action at long snapper...posted 11 clean snaps...Divisional Round vs. Dallas (1/12/19): Saw action at long snapper...registered eight clean snaps...Championship Round at New Orleans (1/20/19): Saw action at long snapper...compiled 10 clean snaps...Super Bowl LIII (2/3/19): Saw action at long snapper...totaled a postseason career-high 11 clean snaps.Â
2017 SEASON: Recorded 151 consecutive clean snaps...had one special teams tackle...vs. Indianapolis (9/10): Saw action at long snapper and recorded 13 clean snaps...vs. Washington (9/17): Saw action at long snapper...tallied eight clean snaps... notched one special teams tackle...at Dallas (10/1): Saw action at long snapper...recorded 13 clean snaps...Wild Card vs. Atlanta (1/6/18): Saw action at long snapper...recorded eight clean snaps.
2016 SEASON: Became the first long-snapper in franchise his- tory to make the Pro Bowl...played in all 16 games...tallied 146 clean snaps...at Arizona (10/2): Compiled 10 clean snaps in addition to his first special teams tackle of the season...vs. Miami (11/20): Notched 11 clean snaps...vs. San Francisco (12/24): Tallied 11 clean snaps.
2015 SEASON: Played in all 16 games...posted 157 snaps on the season, tallying a season-high 13 snaps and one special teams tackle...at San Francisco (1/3/16): Recorded 11 snaps...at Seattle (12/27): Posted 10 clean snaps...vs. Tampa Bay (12/17): Recorded nine clean snaps for the third consecutive week...at Cincinnati (11/29): Recorded six snaps and one special teams tackle...at Baltimore (11/22): Posted 11 snaps...at Minnesota (11/08): Tallied 13 snaps...vs. San Francisco (11/01): Recorded 12 snaps...vs. Cleveland (10/25): Tallied 11 snaps...at Green Bay (10/11): Posted 9 clean snaps...at Arizona (10/4): Recorded 11 clean snaps...vs. Pittsburgh (9/27): Registered six clean snaps...at Washington (9/20): Notched 12 clean snaps...vs. Seattle (9/13): Recorded nine snaps...Week 15 at Seattle (12/15): Tallied five clean snaps.
2014 SEASON: Registered 145 clean snaps... vs. Denver (11/16): Recorded 12 clean snaps...vs. Oakland (11/30): Notched a career-high 14 clean snaps...vs. Arizona (12/11): Tallied 10 clean snaps.
2013 SEASON: Played in 16 games...notched 141 clean snaps... vs. San Francisco (9/26): Recorded a then career-high 13 clean snaps...vs. Jacksonville (10/6): Registered 13 clean snaps for the second consecutive week...at Indianapolis (11/10): Recorded 11 clean snaps.
2012 SEASON: Recorded 139 consecutive clean snaps...had four special teams tackles...at Arizona (11/25): Tallied 12 clean snaps...vs. San Francisco (12/2): Registered 12 clean snaps... at Buffalo (12/9): Tallied eight clean snaps...recorded one tackle on special teams.
2011 SEASON: Recorded 150 consecutive clean snaps...notched two spe- cial teams tackles...vs. New Orleans (10/30): Tallied 12 clean snaps...vs. Seattle (11/20): Made 11 clean snaps...vs. Arizona (11/27): Recorded 12 clean snaps...at*San Francisco (12/4):Recorded eight clean snaps...made one special teams tackle...vs. Cincinnati (12/18):* Tallied 11 clean snaps...added one special teams tackle.
COLLEGE: Originally a walk on at Ohio State...handled long-snap- ping duties for three years...Special Teams Player of the Week vs. Purdue...received his bachelor's degree in December...academic all-Big Ten...John Galbreath award for academic excellence... NFF Hampshire Honor Society...EE All Star Game as a senior... won Top Ten Tenacious three times as a junior...earned a schol- arship beginning in the autumn quarter of his junior year...rotated with Dimitrios Makridis and Jackson Haas on long and short snaps for the Big Ten champions during his freshman year...redshirted as a freshman.
PERSONAL: Name pronounced "Mc-KWAYD"...tight end who had 10 catches for 125 yards as a senior at Elder High in Cincinnati... had no unplayable snaps as a junior or senior...earned the Mr. ZIP award for basketball at Elder...National Honor Society... Student Council communications officer...son of Bev and Kevin McQuaide...has two sisters, Maureen and Katie...married Abby on March 17, 2012, and they have a daughter, Quinn, and a son, JJ...2008-09 Big Ten all-academic...an aeronautical and astronautical engineering major...participated in many community events, including Make-A-Wish Celebrity Server dinner, Taste of the NFL, Love Your Melon Distribution event at Mercy, 6th Annual Playground Build at Marygrove and the All-Community Team Ticket program - 4th Down Fan Club.