Wayne Chrebet - #80 - WR - Hofstra - Profile

HOW OBTAINED         

Signed as a non-drafted free agent by the Jets on 4/25/95.

PRO

Ranks second in franchise history with 580 receptions behind Don Maynard's 627 receptions from 1960-72.

Ranks third in team annals with 7,365 receiving yards behind Maynard (11,732) and Wesley Walker (8,306).

Ranks eighth in franchise history with 41 touchdowns.

Longest career streak of at least one reception was 52 games, from the final game in 1997 through Game 9 of the 2001 season.

Registered at least one reception in 148 of the 158 regular-season and postseason games he appeared in.

Caught 337 passes that made first downs and 126 passes that converted third downs in his career.

Recorded his 500th career reception against the Chicago Bears on 12/15/02.

Nine touchdown receptions in 2002 were a career high.

His 1,083 yards, on 75 receptions, in 1998 was the only 1,000-yard season of his career.

Established the NFL mark for most receptions by a player during his first two seasons in the league with 150 and his 208 catches over the course of his first three seasons were the sixth-most by anyone during their first three years in the NFL.

Has started five postseason games and made 19 catches for 269 yards (14.2 avg.) and two touchdowns.

COLLEGE

Was a two-year starter and four-year letterman at Hofstra, setting school records for touchdowns in a game (five), season (16) and career (31) and the school's single-game receiving yardage mark (245 vs. Delaware).

After his final college season in 1994, was second on Hofstra's all-time receptions and receiving yardage lists.

Majored in criminal justice.

PERSONAL

All-county and all-area selection in football and also lettered in basketball and baseball at Garfield HS in his hometown of Garfield, N.J.

Served as the club's United Way Spokesperson in 1998 and 1999 and continues to work with The Colleen Giblin Foundation.

Wayne and his wife, Amy, are the parents of two sons, Lukas Kane and Cade Jagger.

Earlier this year Wayne opened Chrebet's restaurant right across Hempstead Turnpike from the Jets' practice facility in Hempstead, N.Y.

Wayne is part-owner of a 3-year-old filly pacer named Southwind Tempo that he calls "the horse of a lifetime."