Christian "Chris" James Hopkins
(born February 26, 1985) 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 ...
tight end
The tight end (TE) is a position in American football, arena football, and Canadian football, on the offense (sports), offense. The tight end is often a hybrid position with the characteristics and roles of both an offensive lineman and a wide ...
. He played
college football at the university of
Toledo and
high school football
High school football (french: football au lycée) is gridiron football played by high school teams in the United States and Canada. It ranks among the most popular interscholastic sports in both countries, but its popularity is declining, partl ...
at
Hyde Park High School in
Chicago
(''City in a Garden''); I Will
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. He was signed by the
New York Giants
The New York Giants are a professional American football team based in the New York metropolitan area. The Giants compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the league's National Football Conference (NFC) East divisio ...
as an undrafted free agent on July 30, 2011.
Hopkins earned a
Super Bowl ring as a member of the Giants team who topped the
New England Patriots
The New England Patriots are a professional American football team based in the Greater Boston area. They compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the league's American Football Conference (AFC) AFC East, East divisio ...
by a score of 21–17 in
Super Bowl XLVI
Super Bowl XLVI was an American football game between the National Football Conference (NFC) champion New York Giants and the American Football Conference (AFC) champion New England Patriots to decide the National Football League (NFL) champion ...
on February 5, 2012.
References
External links
Toledo Rockets bioNew York Giants bio
1985 births
Living people
American football tight ends
Hyde Park Academy High School alumni
New York Giants players
Players of American football from Chicago
Toledo Rockets football players
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