Walter cherepinsky biography

It’s always football season for Walter Cherepinsky.

Better known as “Walter Football” because of his website of the same name, Cherepinsky has leveraged an assignment, some curiosity and plenty of passion for the NFL into a successful career.

In 2019, WalterFootball.com drew 58.8 million page views.

“When it started in 1999, there were probably 50 page views — and 15 of them were me continually checking on the site,” Cherepinsky said.

This time of year — with the NFL Combine in late February and then the NFL Draft in April — the website, with its mock drafts, free agent information and news, represents a regular destination for fans as well as football executives.

Cherepinsky, who earned his bachelor’s degree in journalism from Penn State in 2006, created WaterFootball.com as part of a high school internet class.

He kept working on the site during his time as an undergraduate (he was initially a computer science major) and as he star