Bobby Engram Simon J . " Bobby " Engram III ( born January 7 , 1973 ) is a retired American football wide receiver and current wide receivers coach for the University of Pittsburgh Panthers football team . He was drafted by the Chicago Bears in the second round of the 1996 NFL Draft . He played college football at Penn State . Engram has also played for the Seattle Seahawks , Kansas City Chiefs and Cleveland Browns . Early years . Engram attended Camden High School in Camden , South Carolina , where he was a three - time All - State selection at wide receiver . College career . As a college junior , Engram was the go - to receiver on Penn State ' s undefeated 1994 team . Wearing # 10 , he was quarterback Kerry Collins ' favorite target . He garnered All - America n honors and won the first - ever Biletnikoff Award , recognizing the nation ' s best wide receiver . Engram was the Nittany Lions ' career receptions leader until 2008 , when Deon Butler passed his mark of 167 . He is still the all - time leader in yards and touchdowns with 3 , 026 yards and 31 touchdowns . He also racked up 786 career punt return yards for the Nittany Lions , ranking him second in school history . Engram missed the 1992 season as punishment from head - coach Joe Paterno , when he was charged with being involved in a college apartment burglary with teammate Ricky Sayles . Sayles and Engram went into an apartment and removed a stereo . However , the police investigation revealed that Sayles was the mastermind behind the burglary and Engram may have been led to believe that he and Sayles were authorized to take the stereo . Consequently , Engram was allowed to complete a pre - trial diversionary program and the charges were later dropped . Sayles , on the other hand , was permanently dismissed from the team . He earned a Bachelor of Science in exercise science from Penn State in 1995 . NFL career . Chicago Bears . Engram was drafted in the 2nd round of the 1996 NFL Draft , 52nd overall to the Chicago Bears . In his rookie season , he had 33 receptions for 389 yards and 6 touchdown passes . He also returned kicks . Engram spent 5 seasons with the Bears . Seattle Seahawks . Engram signed with the Seattle Seahawks before the 2001 season . He would spend 8 seasons with the Seahawks and reached the 1 , 000 - yard receiving threshold in 2007 ( 94 catches , 1 , 147 yards ) , which was the only 1 , 000 - yard season of his career . Despite being a starter in only 67 of the 109 games he played with Seattle , Engram ranks fifth in franchise history in receptions ( 399 ) and fourth in receiving yards ( 4 , 859 ) . His 94 receptions in 2007 is a Seahawks single - season record , and he led the team in catches during the team ' s Super Bowl season in 2005 with 67 . Engram was named to the Seahawks ’ 35th Anniversary Team in May 2011 . Kansas City Chiefs . Engram joined the Kansas City Chiefs in 2009 , but only played in 5 games for the team . Cleveland Browns . Engram signed with the Cleveland Browns in the 2010 preseason , but failed to make the roster and was released before the regular season began . Retirement , Coaching Career . On January 28 , 2011 , Engram announced that he had retired from the NFL as a player , but that he had accepted a job as an offensive assistant coach for the San Francisco 49ers . In 2012 , it was announced that Engram would become the wide receivers coach for the Pittsburgh Panthers . Personal . Engram and his wife Deanna have four children : daughters , Bobbi and Phoebe , and sons , Dean and Trey . Bobbi was born with the hereditary sickle - cell disease . Engram hosted the " Walk for Sickle Cell Disease " in Seattle in September 2006 . In October 2006 , Engram was diagnosed with Graves ' disease . His subsequent accelerated heart rate , debilitating fatigue , and weight loss caused him to miss a significant amount of playing time during the 2006 season . Engram was the subject of a November 2008 NFL Network segment profiling his participation in The Home Depot ' s NFL Neighborhood MVP program . Engram joined a group of volunteers from the non - profit organization s KaBOOM ! and the Boys & Girls Clubs of America to install a new playground on the Tulalip Indian Reservation in Snohomish County , Washington . When playing games in the Pennsylvania cities of Pittsburgh and Philadelphia , Engram laced his shoes with white shoelaces as opposed to the regular black as a tribute to the old - school beliefs of his college coach , Joe Paterno . He currently lives in Murrysville , Pennsylvania .