{"id":364750,"date":"2025-09-13T12:42:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T12:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/364750\/"},"modified":"2025-09-13T12:42:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T12:42:10","slug":"get-to-know-rookie-efton-chism-better-on-and-off-the-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/364750\/","title":{"rendered":"Get to know rookie Efton Chism better on and off the field"},"content":{"rendered":"

FOXBORO \u2014 Patriots rookie wide receiver Efton Chism hasn\u2019t had the opportunity to make his NFL debut, but he\u2019s still a fan favorite for how he flashed in two standout preseason games<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Learn more about Chism, his memories of Super Bowl XLIX, growing up in Washington State and why he\u2019s bonded with fellow wide receiver Mack Hollins.<\/p>\n

First football memory: \u201cI used to run around my house. We had a little mobile home growing up, and I had one of those little plastic helmets you can get from like Fred Meyers or whatever the grocery store is. And my dad \u2014 it was like a couch, we had a fireplace and a bookshelf. And my dad would just give me routes. He\u2019d say go to the couch, to the bookshelf and then back. And then I would just run them, and he would throw it \u2014 like the little Nerf ball. I\u2019m diving all over the place, making catches and stuff. So, that was probably my first memory of football.\u201d<\/p>\n

Top high school football memory: \u201cTeam camp. We did this thing in the summer where the whole team gets on a bus or drives to a college, and it ended up being Eastern Washington, my college. So we went there, stayed in the dorms as high school kids were there for like, a week, practicing against other teams and stuff like that. Those are always kind of my best memories of high school. Because you\u2019re there with just the guys running around doing whatever for a couple days. It\u2019s pretty fun.\u201d<\/p>\n

Top college football memory at Eastern Washington: \u201cDefinitely, just the guys I played with. Those relationships I built with those guys have been super special. And then just the opportunities that are brought playing the bigger teams was pretty cool, and then beating some of them and being in tight, close games like Fresno. It was super special over there.\u201d<\/p>\n

If it took long getting used to EWU\u2019s red field: Honestly, not. It wasn\u2019t that bad for me. Some people come and play there and they actually don\u2019t like it. It bothers them. Like, I\u2019ve heard from other people that we played, but no, I love it.<\/p>\n

What you would be doing if you weren\u2019t a football player: \u201cI\u2019d be doing some sort of sport, I think. I was big into baseball growing up. That was kind of like my sport that I only played, played on a bunch of different travel teams and then ended up playing football instead. But if not that, I don\u2019t know. Some sports for sure.<\/p>\n

Favorite athlete growing up: \u201cLeBron James. Still is. That\u2019s my guy. I think he\u2019s the GOAT. Rolling with him all the way.\u201d<\/p>\n

Favorite movie: \u201cLongest Yard.\u201d That\u2019s my favorite one. Adam Sandler, he\u2019s one of the GOATs, as well.\u201d<\/p>\n

Favorite musical artist: \u201cDrake. Big Drake guy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Favorite song:\u00a0\u201cDo Not Disturb\u201d by Drake. That\u2019s the one I like to listen to. That\u2019s the one.<\/p>\n

Best friend or best friends on the team: \u201cMe and Mack (Hollins) are pretty close. I don\u2019t know if he saw me just like studying by myself one day and stuff like that. And he kind of just ended up gravitating towards me and helping me out here and there. And now, all of a sudden, we\u2019re kind of with each other all day, asking each other questions, making sure we\u2019re staying sharp on top of all the little details.\u201d<\/p>\n

If he\u2019s still doing late-night sessions with Hollins: \u201cEvery day, so it\u2019s been helpful just to make sure that I\u2019m still preparing the way that I was during camp, and that he\u2019s still preparing the way he was during camp, keeping ourselves held accountable. Sometimes we do it at the facility. Sometimes we go home and do it at like the hotel or something like that. So it just kind of depends.\u201d<\/p>\n

Funniest player on the team: \u201cI think it\u2019s Pop (Douglas). I love Pop. He\u2019s hilarious. He\u2019s always got funny stuff to say, like little smart comments. Not like smart alec comments, but he\u2019s got just a little comment that just makes me laugh sometimes. I love Pop.\u201d<\/p>\n

What you like most about New England: \u201cI like the versatility. When I was out here for OTAs and stuff, we got a couple days off, but you go to Boston, enjoy that. I like Foxboro because it reminds me of home. And then if you really want, you can go to like, Cape Cod and Rhode Island, different stuff like that, and kind of get a little bit of everything.\u201d<\/p>\n

Player across the league who\u2019s unheralded or underappreciated:\u00a0\u201cI mean, my big one\u2019s definitely Coop (Seahawks and ex-Eastern Washington wide receiver Cooper Kupp). Just kind of growing up watching him, and then him having the great year with the triple crown, and then now, I think people almost forget that he did that, and that he\u2019s still one of the best receivers in the league, I would say. And then growing up, kind of say another person growing up training with is (Buccaneers wide receiver) Emeka (Egbuka). He went crazy last week. So it\u2019s pretty cool seeing him do that. But there\u2019s a lot of guys from Washington that it\u2019s been pretty special to see just kind of make an impact in the NFL and then kind of stick. So it\u2019s been pretty sweet.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hidden talent: \u201cI\u2019m good at art. I don\u2019t know, a little hidden talent. I\u2019m an artist, a little bit. Not a painter. I\u2019m not a big painter, but spray paint, can draw a little bit.\u201d<\/p>\n

If he was a Seahawks fan growing up: \u201cI was a little bit of Seahawks, a little bit of a Bears fan, because my dad\u2019s best friend was a Bears fan. So, I grew up going into his house, he had like a framed Walter Payton jersey, and I was just like, \u2018I\u2019m gonna be a Bears fan.\u2019 So I kind of did a little bit of back and forth, kind of being out there.\u201d<\/p>\n

If he has a memory of Super Bowl XLIX: \u201cI do. I was at my friend\u2019s house. There was probably 30-40 people there. We were up top because he had this little balcony, and the TV was down below, right? So we\u2019re on this balcony watching it. Then Jermaine Kearse made the catch. We were like, \u2018Oh, we\u2019re gonna win.\u2019 And then all of a sudden, the pick. And I remember all the parents, because I was still pretty young. I mean, I was, might have been in middle school, but made the pick, and I heard all the parents screaming, cussing. I\u2019m like, \u2018What\u2019s going on? What did they just do?\u2019 And so it was crazy.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FOXBORO \u2014 Patriots rookie wide receiver Efton Chism hasn\u2019t had the opportunity to make his NFL debut, but…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":364751,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2050],"tags":[80,833,839,7,838,1167,249,2326,2094,6,15,835,61050,832,208,836,19972,834,831,61051,61052,724,837],"class_list":{"0":"post-364750","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-england-patriots","8":"tag-2025-nfl-draft","9":"tag-drake-maye","10":"tag-eliot-wolf","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-mike-vrabel","13":"tag-new-england","14":"tag-new-england-patriots","15":"tag-newengland","16":"tag-newenglandpatriots","17":"tag-nfl","18":"tag-nfl-draft","19":"tag-nfl-news","20":"tag-nfl-patriots","21":"tag-nfl-rumors","22":"tag-patriots","23":"tag-patriots-2025","24":"tag-patriots-game","25":"tag-patriots-news","26":"tag-patriots-rumors","27":"tag-patriots-schedule","28":"tag-patriots-stats","29":"tag-pats","30":"tag-robert-kraft"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115197047358296278","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364750\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/364751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}