sorry I guess we were talking about football players and not players from other sports…carry on
IMO Pete Dawkins doesn’t fit because he didn’t go Pro. And Academy grads are a different type to start with.
I love that the Chiefs and McGill worked with him to make this happen. He left right after graduation to fly to a football practice! http://publications.mcgill.ca/medenews/2018/05/31/big-man-on-campus/
Richard Sherman, 3.9 grad of Stanford, and did some grad work in his redshirt year.
But my favorite Athlete-Scholar of all time is Moe Berg, who also was a spy for the US during WWII.