The Placentia Junior All American football league of today is built upon the history of the original Placentia Yorba-Linda/North Orange County JAA football league, which flourished in the 1970’s and 80’s. The old league helped produce some of the finest athletes that ever performed. Chris Draft is alumni who played in the mid 80"s with the North Orange County Piranhas. After playing with the Piranhas he went on to play for Valencia High School. In is High School career Chris was an All-American in football and baseball at Valencia High School in Placentia, California. He played running back and linebacker during his prep career.

He was a four-year letter winner and a three-year starter at inside linebacker for Stanford. He started his Stanford career as a true freshman playing strong safety. As a two-time second-team All-Pacific Ten Conference selection, he totaled 316 career tackles, six sacks and two interceptions. As a senior in 1997, he earned second-team All-Pac 10 honors and led the Cardinal with 81 tackles and contributed two sacks and two interceptions. He graduated from Stanford with a degree in economics.

Draft was drafted in the sixth round of the 1998 draft by the Chicago Bears. Draft was waived by the Bears after one season, spent one season with the San Francisco 49ers, then five years with the Atlanta Falcons. He was a four year starter for the Falcons. Draft was signed by Carolina in early 2004. Draft moved to middle linebacker from weakside linebacker in 2004 as the Atlanta Falcons switched to a 4-3 defense from a 3-4. He amassed a career-high 178 tackles for Atlanta in 2003 while starting all 16 games for the first time. He made his first NFL start versus the New York Giants in 2000 and responded with eight tackles. On March 19, 2007 he signed a three year contract with the Rams.

*Career Highlights*

 Current member of the St. Louis Rams professional football team 2006 Man of the Year – Carolina Panthers 2004 Byron “Whizzer” White Award Finalist Former starting linebacker for the Carolina Panthers Former five year starting linebacker for the Atlanta Falcons Career best 178 tackles (110 solo) in 2003 Host of his own Atlanta Metro Area television show "The Draft Report" 2002 Ed Block Courage Award 2001 Rankin Smith Award