Sean Cattouse (born October 4, 1988) is a former

American football American football (referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada), also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end. The offense, the team with ...

free safety Safety is a position in gridiron football on the defense. The safeties are defensive backs who line up ten to fifteen yards from the line of scrimmage. There are two variations of the position: the free safety and the strong safety. Their dut ...

. He played

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at the

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...

and attended Hubbard High School in

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. He was also a member of the

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and

Chicago Bears The Chicago Bears are a professional American football team based in Chicago. The Bears compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the league's National Football Conference (NFC) North division. The Bears have won nine NF ...

of the

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(NFL).

Professional career

Cattouse was signed by the NFL's

on April 30, 2012, after going undrafted in the

2012 NFL Draft The 2012 NFL draft was the 77th annual meeting of National Football League (NFL) franchises to select newly eligible American football players for their rosters. The draft, which is officially called the "NFL Player Selection Meeting", was held ...

. He made his NFL debut on December 30, 2012, against the

Oakland Raiders The Oakland Raiders were a professional American football team that played in Oakland from its founding in 1960 to 1981 and again from 1995 to 2019 before relocating to the Las Vegas metropolitan area where they now play as the Las Vegas Raide ...

. He was released by the Chargers on August 30, 2013. Cattouse spent the 2013 season with the

of the NFL. He was released by the Bears on June 19, 2014.

Personal life

Cattouse began to work as a physical education teacher at

Muchin College Prep Muchin College Prep is a public four-year charter high school located in the Chicago Loop in Chicago, Illinois, United States. It is a part of the Noble Network of Charter Schools Noble Schools, (formerly known as the Noble Network of Charter S ...

during the 2015–16 school year. He currently is a physical education teacher at Rauner College Prep High School in Chicago.

References

External links

Just Sports Stats
{{DEFAULTSORT:Cattouse, Sean Living people 1988 births Players of American football from Chicago American football safeties California Golden Bears football players San Diego Chargers players Chicago Bears players