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American football player (born 1977)
American football player
Matthew L. Chatham
(born June 28, 1977) is a former
American football
linebacker
. He played college football at
South Dakota
. He played in the
National Football League
(NFL) for the
New England Patriots
and
New York Jets
.
High school years
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Chatham attended
Sioux City North High School
in
Sioux City, Iowa
, and won All-State honors in football and baseball.
College career
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Chatham attended the
University of South Dakota
. As a junior, he made 95 tackles and six interceptions. In his senior year he made 74 tackles and one interception. He was a double major in English and Criminal Justice at South Dakota.
[1]
Chatham received a Masters in Business Administration from
Babson College
in 2011.
NFL career
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Chatham was signed by the
St. Louis Rams
as a rookie free agent but was released before the start of the regular season.
He spent the first six seasons of his career in New England, including contributing to three of the Patriots'
Super Bowl
victories (
XXXVI
,
XXXVIII
,
XXXIX
). He was known as one of the leaders of the Patriots' special teams. During the 2003 season, he recorded his first and only NFL touchdown when he recovered a
Tiki Barber
fumble in a game against the
New York Giants
and returned it for a 38-yard touchdown.
[2]
XXXVIII, he tackled streaker
Mark Roberts
, who had come onto the field just before the second-half kickoff.
[3]
NFL career statistics
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Regular season
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Year
|
Team
|
Games
|
Tackles
|
Interceptions
|
Fumbles
|
GP
|
GS
|
Cmb
|
Solo
|
Ast
|
Sck
|
Sfty
|
Int
|
Yds
|
Lng
|
TD
|
PD
|
FF
|
FR
|
Yds
|
TD
|
2000
|
NE
|
6
|
0
|
2
|
2
|
0
|
0.0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
2001
|
NE
|
11
|
0
|
14
|
13
|
1
|
0.0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
2002
|
NE
|
13
|
0
|
17
|
14
|
3
|
0.0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
2003
|
NE
|
16
|
4
|
38
|
25
|
13
|
1.5
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
1
|
2
|
38
|
1
|
2004
|
NE
|
5
|
0
|
2
|
2
|
0
|
0.0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
2005
|
NE
|
15
|
0
|
23
|
16
|
7
|
1.0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
1
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
2006
|
NYJ
|
16
|
0
|
29
|
16
|
13
|
0.0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
2007
|
NYJ
|
9
|
0
|
18
|
12
|
6
|
0.0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
Career
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91
|
4
|
143
|
100
|
43
|
2.5
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
1
|
1
|
2
|
38
|
1
|
Retirement career
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Chatham now runs an NFL informational column in the Boston Herald called "The Chatham Report" and appears every Sunday morning on WEEI with Kevin Faulk, Dale Arnold and Christopher Price. He can be found on Twitter under @chatham58. He is a regular columnist on the Football By Football website. Chatham is also an in-studio football analyst with
NESN
.
He has also received his
MBA
from
Babson College
and has started a creperie restaurant franchise called Skycrepers.
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