Andre 'Dre' Bly

Andre 'Dre' Bly


Bly, graduated from Western Branch High School in Chesapeake, where he was an all-state high school football player as well as a decorated baseball player for Western Branch Bruins. Bly attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where as a redshirt freshman at UNC, he led the nation with 11 interceptions. Bly left his a lasting mark on collegiate sports by setting the ACC record for career interceptions (20), which was later broken by Alphonso Smith of Wake Forest. He was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 2014. Bly was drafted in the second round of the 1999 NFL Draft by the Rams where he played four years of his 11 years. While with the Rams, Bly received a Super Bowl ring for Super Bowl XXXIV, and appeared two years later in Super Bowl XXXVI, when the Rams lost to the New England Patriots.