While football may be Jared Goff's forte, his father, Jerry Goff, was skilled more in baseball. Similar to his son, Jerry was an incredibly talented athlete from a young age. He was drafted right out of high school by the Oakland Athletics and the New York Yankees, per Heavy. He decided to forgo going pro at the time, though, and instead went to University of California, Berkeley to play ball.
Eventually, he did decide to go pro and in 1986 he was picked in the third round of the Major League Baseball Draft by the Seattle Mariners. He struggled through Seattle's minor league system before being picked up by the Montreal Expos and making his MLB debut in 1990, per Fox Sports. He went on to have a successful six-season career in the MLB, playing for the Pittsburgh Pirates and Houston Astros as well.
Jared has clearly followed in his father's footsteps, albeit for a different sport, with attending his alma mater and also making the jump to the pro level. Jerry could not be prouder of his son, too.
"He's a lot better than I ever thought about being, I'll tell you that, in his sport for sure," he told CBS's KPIX 5 in San Francisco in an interview ahead of Jared's first Super Bowl appearance. "Proud as can be. To see the progression he's made over the last couple years and throughout the course of his career. We're just happy for him more so than anything."
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