First and foremost, Chase Coffman thanks his dad for the hard work and leadership skills that propelled his rise to NCAA All-American and National Football League player. “Growing up, I was a hot-head,” Coffman said, laughing. His dad, Paul, was in the NFL 11 seasons, eight with the Green Bay Packers. “I would get after… Read more »
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Team: Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Josh Freeman
On Kansas City’s south side, just east of old Highway 71, the football stadium at Grandview High School once featured a star attraction, blue-chip recruit Josh Freeman. As a freshman, he won a starting role at linebacker and later spent two seasons at quarterback, a role which generated interest from Power 5 schools such as… Read more »
Dennis Heim
Looking at his resume, you would assume he was born the size of a football defensive lineman: All-State in high school, all-conference in college and drafted into the National Football League. However, Dennis Heim emphasizes that that wasn’t quite the reality. As a sophomore at Monett High School, he had played as a 5-foot-10, 150-pounder. But the summer before his junior year, he hauled hay and, three… Read more »
Jason Whittle
Talk about living a dream. In 1998, three games into an improbable National Football League career, Jason Whittle found himself in a New York Giants uniform and about to play his boyhood team, the Dallas Cowboys – all on ABC’s Monday Night Football. “There’s no way I should have been playing in the NFL,” said… Read more »