Wayne Chrebet

The son of a Vietnam War purple heart recipient, Wayne Chrebet was born into a blue collar football tradition in New Jersey where he still lives with his wife Amy and two sons. Chrebet was a surprise star for Hofstra University where he set numerous receiving records. Wayne Chrebet was not drafted by any team at the National Football League Draft yet was not deterred and eventually earned a long shot walk-on opportunity with the New York Jets where he was 11th of 11 on the depth chart. Chrebet was even stopped and detained at the front gate on his first day of training camp by the senior New York Jets security guard who did not believe Chrebet could actually be a football player due to his size. A New York Jet team official was summoned per Chrebet's polite but firm request to finally verify he was indeed an authorized walk-on and could enter the training complex. What followed was one of the greatest rags to riches stories in the history of professional sports as Wayne Chrebet worked