Chase Lyman (born September 4, 1982) 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 wit ...
wide receiver.
Lyman was raised in
Los Altos Hills, CA
Los Altos Hills (; ''Los Altos'', Spanish for "The Heights") is an incorporated town in Santa Clara County, California, United States. The population was 8,489 at the 2020 census. The town is known for its affluence and expensive residential ...
and is the son of former NFL player
Brad Lyman. He attended
Saint Francis High School in
Mountain View, California
Mountain View is a city in Santa Clara County, California, United States. Named for its views of the Santa Cruz Mountains, it has a population of 82,376.
Mountain View was integral to the early history and growth of Silicon Valley, and is th ...
where he played football, basketball and ran track. The
San Jose Mercury News
''The Mercury News'' (formerly ''San Jose Mercury News'', often locally known as ''The Merc'') is a morning daily newspaper published in San Jose, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area. It is published by the Bay Area News Group, a subsidia ...
named Lyman their Male Athlete of the Year in 2000. The San Jose Sports Hall of Fame awarded him their Outstanding Male High School Athlete of the Year in 2000.
Despite his success in high school athletics, Lyman received only one scholarship offer, to the
University of California
The University of California (UC) is a public land-grant research university system in the U.S. state of California. The system is composed of the campuses at Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles, Merced, Riverside, San Diego, San Fran ...
. Lyman became a key component of the Cal offense. In his junior year, he was a main target for Cal quarterback
Aaron Rodgers
Aaron Charles Rodgers (born December 2, 1983) is an American football quarterback for the Green Bay Packers of the National Football League (NFL). Rodgers began his college football career at Butte College in 2002 before transferring to t ...
. Initially wearing #81, he later switched to #15. He graduated with a degree in American Studies in 2004 and was drafted in the 4th round by the New Orleans Saints in 2005. Lyman's football career was cut short by injury. He retired after tearing his
ACL for a second time.
Lyman worked in commercial real estate with Cornish & Carey Commercial in Palo Alto, California. Since then, he has become the current Director of Commercial Real Estate at The Sobrato Organization.
1982 births
American football wide receivers
California Golden Bears football players
Living people
New Orleans Saints players
People from Mountain View, California
Players of American football from California
Sportspeople from Santa Clara County, California
People from Los Altos Hills, California
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