Selected by the Los Angeles Rams in the third round of the 1978 NFL draft, he was a part of their Super Bowl XIV team.
[2] His father, Alfonso Corrales Ruiz, hailed from Ciudad Jiménez while his mother, Soledad Rodríguez Natividad, was from Camargo.
[2] The family moved to Ciudad Juárez before immigrating to the United States, where they lived in Colorado before settling in California.
[2] Corral was a six-sport athlete at Norte Vista High School in Riverside, California, playing football along with baseball, basketball, tennis, soccer, and track and field.
He added punting chores to his list of duties in 1980 and 1981 and remains the last NFL player to have been both the starting placekicker and punter for his team.