CHARLOTTE - Before he ever stepped onto an NFL field, Chase Blackburn dreamed of being a football coach one day.
He could have never dreamed exactly how his vision would turn to reality.
"I went to school and was a secondary math education major so I could teach and coach," Blackburn said. "It just turned out that I was able to play football for 10 years before."
As a student-athlete at the University of Akron, Blackburn worked on and off the field to learn how to coach aspiring athletes hoping to play in college and beyond.