Chase Claypool is a young man who has refused to be denied in his life.
The youngest in a family of four brothers, a sister and two step brothers, Claypool had to fight for everything he got growing up in Abbotsford, British Columbia, about 10 minutes north of the U.S. border between Seattle and Vancouver.
Sometimes there wasn't even enough food to go around, especially when you're the youngest. Notice, we didn't say smallest.
Claypool has never been that. By the time he was in middle school, the now 6-foot-4, 238-pound wide receiver was wearing a big man on campus -- literally.