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| Position | Wide receiver | ||||||||
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| Born | (1968-08-17)August 17, 1968 (age 57) Waynesboro, Pennsylvania, U.S. | ||||||||
| Height | 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m) | ||||||||
| Weight | 215 lb (98 kg) | ||||||||
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| High school | Allentown Central Catholic(Allentown, Pennsylvania) | ||||||||
| College | Stanford (1986–1990) | ||||||||
| NFL draft | 1991: 3rd round, 83rd overall pick | ||||||||
| Career history | |||||||||
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Edward Thomas McCaffrey (born August 17, 1968) is an American former professionalfootball player who was awide receiver for 13 seasons in theNational Football League (NFL) for theNew York Giants,San Francisco 49ers, andDenver Broncos. He playedcollege football for theStanford Cardinal, where he earned first-teamAll-America honors in 1990.
Regarded as one of the best blocking wide receivers in NFL history, McCaffrey is a three-timeSuper Bowl champion (XXIX,XXXII,XXXIII), a second-teamAll-Pro selection in 1998, and a member of the Broncos' 50th anniversary team. He is the father of football playersMax,Christian,Dylan, andLuke McCaffrey.
McCaffrey was born on August 17, 1968, inWaynesboro, Pennsylvania and attendedAllentown Central Catholic High School inAllentown, where he playedfootball in theEastern Pennsylvania Conference and was a standout basketball player, leading the school to Pennsylvania state titles in 1984 and 1986.[1]
McCaffrey attendedStanford University, where he playedcollege football forthe Cardinal. He finished his Stanford career as the school's fifth all-time leader in receptions (146) and third all-time leader in receiving yards (2,333). He earned first-teamAll-America andAll-Pac-10 Conference honors as a senior in1990, catching 61 passes for 917 yards and eight touchdowns that season. McCaffrey was enshrined in Stanford's Athletic Hall of Fame in 1990.[2] At Stanford, he was also a member ofSigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity.[citation needed]
| Height | Weight | Arm length | Hand span | 40-yard dash | 10-yard split | 20-yard split | 20-yard shuttle | Vertical jump | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m) | 210 lb (95 kg) | 34+1⁄2 in (0.88 m) | 10+1⁄4 in (0.26 m) | 4.69 s | 1.64 s | 2.73 s | 4.15 s | 37.0 in (0.94 m) | ||||
| All values fromNFL Combine[3] | ||||||||||||
McCaffrey entered the1991 NFL draft and was selected by theNew York Giants in the third round (83rd overall).[4] During his thirteen-year career, he won threeSuper Bowl rings,Super Bowl XXIX with theSan Francisco 49ers andSuper Bowl XXXII andSuper Bowl XXXIII with theDenver Broncos and was named to thePro Bowl in1998.
With the Denver Broncos, he became a reliable target for quarterbackJohn Elway, set a Broncos record for most receptions in a season at the time with 101 receptions in the2000 season, and had an exceptional performance in Super Bowl XXXIII against theAtlanta Falcons, recording five catches for 72 yards. In 2000, McCaffrey and teammateRod Smith became only the second wide receiver duo from the same team to each gain 100 receptions in the same season, matching a record byHerman Moore andBrett Perriman.
In the opening game of theBroncos' 2001 season, McCaffrey suffered a leg fracture in aMonday Night Football game against theNew York Giants.[5] He rebounded in the2002 season for the Broncos, registering 69 receptions and 903 yards. Hampered by injuries during a disappointing2003 season, McCaffrey retired on February 29, 2004. He finished his career with 565 career receptions for 7,422 yards along with 55 touchdowns.[6] During his tenure, he was known by the nicknames "Easy,"[7] “Eddie Mac,”[8] “White Lightning,”[9] and “The Bruise.”[10]
| Year | Team | GP | Receiving | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rec | Yds | Avg | Lng | TD | |||
| 1991 | NYG | 16 | 16 | 146 | 9.1 | 26 | 0 |
| 1992 | NYG | 16 | 49 | 610 | 12.4 | 44 | 5 |
| 1993 | NYG | 16 | 27 | 335 | 12.4 | 31 | 2 |
| 1994 | SF | 16 | 11 | 131 | 11.9 | 32 | 2 |
| 1995 | DEN | 16 | 39 | 477 | 12.2 | 35 | 2 |
| 1996 | DEN | 15 | 48 | 553 | 11.5 | 39 | 7 |
| 1997 | DEN | 15 | 45 | 590 | 13.1 | 35 | 8 |
| 1998 | DEN | 15 | 64 | 1,053 | 16.5 | 48 | 10 |
| 1999 | DEN | 15 | 71 | 1,018 | 14.3 | 78 | 7 |
| 2000 | DEN | 16 | 101 | 1,317 | 13.0 | 61 | 9 |
| 2001 | DEN | 1 | 6 | 94 | 15.7 | 28 | 1 |
| 2002 | DEN | 16 | 69 | 903 | 13.1 | 69 | 2 |
| 2003 | DEN | 12 | 19 | 195 | 10.3 | 23 | 0 |
| Career | 185 | 565 | 7,422 | 13.1 | 78 | 55 | |
| Year | Team | GP | Receiving | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rec | Yds | Avg | Lng | TD | FD | |||
| 1993 | NYG | 2 | 5 | 59 | 11.8 | 14 | 0 | 2 |
| 1994 | SF | 3 | 1 | 5 | 5.0 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| 1996 | DEN | 1 | 5 | 54 | 10.8 | 15 | 1 | 3 |
| 1997 | DEN | 4 | 12 | 171 | 14.3 | 43 | 1 | 7 |
| 1998 | DEN | 3 | 11 | 190 | 17.3 | 47 | 0 | 9 |
| 2000 | DEN | 1 | 8 | 75 | 9.4 | 16 | 0 | 5 |
| Career | 14 | 42 | 554 | 13.2 | 47 | 2 | 26 | |
McCaffrey was named the head football coach atValor Christian High School in February 2018.[11]
On December 12, 2019, theUniversity of Northern Colorado hired McCaffrey as head football coach.[12] He was fired from the position on November 21, 2022.
| Year | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Bowl/playoffs | ||||
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| Northern Colorado Bears(Big Sky Conference)(2020–2022) | |||||||||
| 2020–21 | No team—COVID-19 | ||||||||
| 2021 | Northern Colorado | 3–8 | 2–6 | 10th | |||||
| 2022 | Northern Colorado | 3–8 | 2–6 | T–8th | |||||
| Northern Colorado: | 6–16 | 4–12 | |||||||
| Total: | 6–16 | ||||||||
| Year | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Bowl/playoffs | ||||
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| Valor Christian Eagles()(2018–2019) | |||||||||
| 2018 | Valor Christian | 14–0 | 5–0 | 1st | |||||
| 2019 | Valor Christian | 10–2 | 5–0 | 1st | |||||
| Valor Christian: | 24–2 | 10–0 | |||||||
| Total: | 24–2 | ||||||||
| National championship Conference title Conference division title or championship game berth | |||||||||
McCaffrey began coaching youth football camps in the summer of 2000. In 2011, he founded SportsEddy, which includes not just football but lacrosse, soccer, baseball and basketball camps. The Ed McCaffrey "Dare to Play" football camp and the "Dare to Cheer" cheerleading camp for individuals with Down syndrome are produced in partnership with the Global Down Syndrome Foundation. McCaffrey also founded the McCaffrey Family Foundation with wife Lisa, to assist children whose medical situation has created an academic or financial hardship.
He also has his own brand of mustard and horseradish sauce, which can be found in supermarkets across Colorado and into Nebraska. On July 30, 2012, McCaffrey was named the new color analyst for850 KOA, flagship station of the Denver Broncos Radio Network, replacingBrian Griese. In 2019, it was announced he would serve as the commissioner of the plannedPacific Pro Football league.
McCaffrey is the oldest of five children, with two brothers and two sisters: Monica, who playedcollege basketball atGeorgetown University,Billy, who played college basketball atDuke University andVanderbilt University, Michael, and Meghan.
McCaffrey met his wife, Lisa (Sime), daughter ofOlympicsprinterDave Sime, while they were both students atStanford University. They have four sons together, all of whom have played football.
Their eldest,Max, was a wide receiver who playedcollege football for theDuke Blue Devils. He was on the rosters of several different NFL teams from 2016 to 2018,[13] and serves as an offensive assistant for theMiami Dolphins.[14]
Christian McCaffrey was a four-starrunning back for theValor Eagles between 2010 and 2014. During that time, he also playedwide receiver,cornerback, andpunter. He broke numerousColorado state high school records, including career totaltouchdowns (141), career all purpose yards (8,845), career touchdown receptions (47), and single season all-purpose yards (3,032).[15] He was theGatorade Football Player of the Year for Colorado in both 2012 and 2013.[16] He also playedbasketball. He was arunning back for theStanford Cardinal in2014,2015, and2016, and was the runner-up for the 2015Heisman Trophy behindAlabama'sDerrick Henry in the 2015 voting.[17] He left Stanford a year early after the 2016 season to enter the2017 NFL draft, where he was selected by theCarolina Panthers with the eighth overall selection in the first round. Christian was later traded to theSan Francisco 49ers in the middle of the2022 season.
Dylan McCaffrey was a four-star quarterback forValor Christian who graduated in 2017. His team won the Colorado Class 5A state championship, the highest level of play, in three of the four years he played. As the second-ranked quarterback in the country and top-ranked quarterback in Colorado, Dylan received scholarship offers fromDuke,Colorado,Rutgers,LSU,Michigan,Washington,UCLA,Colorado State, andPenn State.[18] He committed to play college football at Michigan in February 2016.[19] After graduating from Michigan in December 2020, he played one year atNorthern Colorado and received his Master of Business Administration.[20]
McCaffrey's youngest son,Luke McCaffrey, graduatedValor Christian in May 2019. He received football scholarship offers fromMichigan andNebraska.[21] He committed to Nebraska in June 2018.[22] He transferred toRice University in 2021 and became a wide receiver.[23] Luke was selected by theWashington Commanders in the third round of the2024 NFL draft.
