Former New York Jets wide receiver joins the Moldaver Group in Red Bank, N.J.. Wayne Chrebet, an 11-year veteran of National Football League 's (NFL) New York Jets, has joined Morgan Stanley 's Global Wealth Management Group in Red Bank, N.J., as a member Ed Moldaver's Moldaver Group, a team of six investment professionals that provides a range of wealth-management services to affluent private clients.

"We are extremely pleased that Wayne has joined Morgan Stanley," says Christopher Shaw, manager of Morgan Stanley's Red Bank office. "Wayne is well known and respected in our local community and throughout the NFL, and is a valued addition to our team."

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Hofstra University graduate and four-year letter winner Cherbet started his professional football career in 1995 with the Jets as a wide receiver -- earning his spot on the team as an uninvited "walk on." He set the NFL record for the most receptions by a wide receiver in his first two seasons. In 2004, Sports Illustrated dubbed his career "one of the greatest rags to riches stories in the history of professional sports."

Chicago Tribune staff reporter Lew Freedman provided a more concrete description of Cherbet in a December 2002 article. "For most of his career, Wayne Chrebet has been the little engine that could -- an undersized, underrated wide receiver repeatedly burning doubters."

Morgan Stanley's Global Wealth Management Group -- which is days away from a merger with Citigroup's retail brokerage Smith Barney -- provides brokerage and investment advisory services, financial and wealth planning, credit and lending, cash management, annuities and insurance, retirement and trust to individuals, businesses and institutions. -FWR

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