• Offensive
  Lineman/Defensive Lineman
• 6-5, 265 pounds
• St. Anne’s-Belfield (Charlottesville, VA)
• Senior Line: 91 tackles (44 solo), 23 tackles-for-loss, 15 sacks, 72 pancake blocks on offense
• Four-star prospect by Rivals.com and three-star by Insiders.com
• Committed to UVa on November 3, 2002
• Primary Recruiter: Mike London
• Groh’s Quote (talking about Long’s competition level):

You might think that this was all inevitable for Chris Long , that he would follow in his father’s footsteps, that
he would excel at his father‘s position, that he would become a major-college football recruit.

If so, you‘d be wrong.

Three years ago, when Chris was 15, he was far from certain about his future. Football? It was OK, but he liked other
sports, too – baseball, basketball, lacrosse. And frankly, he wasn’t all that serious about any of them.

“He was like a lot of kids are at that age – playful, unfocused in the classroom. He was a very active kid,
but he couldn’t pay attention to one thing for long,” said St. Anne’s-Belfield football coach John Blake.
“He was kind of like a great big puppy. He wasn’t mature yet.”

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