Just four months ago the 6-foot-7 Riva was a 315-pound right tackle coming off a fractured senior season for the Huskies. Now he’s a 250-pound stockbroker-in-training, eagerly preparing to start his new career this summer at a financial firm in San Francisco.
Former Washington offensive lineman Ben Riva didn’t know what to expect when he went to Wall Street in February for job interviews with some of the more influential financial firms: Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase.
There he found familiar comfort in chaos.
His NFL dreams having faded, Riva left New York knowing exactly what he wanted to do next.