Charvarius Ward is an American football cornerback for the Kansas City Chiefs of the National Football League. He played college football at Middle Tennessee State University.
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Mississippi, Ward was always a good athlete, but he didn’t get his football career started until his senior year in high school. After undergoing surgery as a child to remove a cyst in his hip bone, Ward was confined to a wheelchair for six months and had to use crutches for the better part of two years during his grade school days, which led in part to him not playing sports when he was young.
According to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, local coaches saw Ward’s ability and asked him to play youth football, but he wasn’t too interested, saying, “I was a big momma’s boy. I didn’t want to leave the house.”
Ward was a strong student in high school, graduating in three years after being able to bypass his sophomore year. But Ward’s mother Tanya told the Murfreesboro Daily News Journal that once her son got focused on football, there was no turning back.
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Charvarius Ward comes to the 49ers as a lifelong underdog, having gone from being someone who didn’t want to play football for most of his youth to now being the recipient of a new three-year, $42 million contract.
Ward’s unlikely success story began a new chapter Monday night when he agreed to sign with the 49ers after spending four seasons with the Kansas City Chiefs.
As was the case coming out of high school, Ward didn’t enter into the NFL Draft surrounded by hype. He started his collegiate career at Hinds Community College, where he had 64 tackles and four interceptions in two seasons (2014-2015) before transferring to Middle Tennessee State.
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Ward produced 74 total tackles, 21 passes defensed, and two interceptions in 25 games at Middle Tennessee but was not invited to the 2018 NFL Scouting Combine, which led him to catch the attention of scouts with a strong pro day performance where he turned in a 4.44-second time in the 40-yard dash.
Ward wound up going undrafted before signing with the Dallas Cowboys as a free agent.
The Cowboys thought well of Ward during his brief time with the team, but they decided there wouldn’t be room for him on their roster and traded him to the Kansas City Chiefs at the end of the 2018 preseason in exchange for veteran offensive lineman Parker Ehinger. Ward said he began to cry when the Cowboys informed him of the news.
Born: 16 May 1996 (age 25 years), McComb, Mississippi, United States
