William Yeatman (born April 10, 1988) is a former American football offensive tackle who played five seasons during his career.

Yeatman has four siblings: Grant, who was a member of Navy ROTC and played Club lacrosse at University of Southern California, he now works for Jones Lang & LaSalle in Oakand; Caroline, a former member of San Diego State's Crew team and Club lacrosse team.

She is a graduate of San Diego State and taught English and coached lacrosse in Kiel, Germany for three years.

She now lives in San Diego; Anne Morgan, who played lacrosse and graduated from Maryland; she won a national championship.

[2][4] Yeatman was raised in San Diego, California, and attended Rancho Bernardo High School, where he played football (as a tight end) and lacrosse.

Yeatman was recruited by over 70 schools in football and received scholarship offers from 43 schools in football most notably Michigan, Nebraska, Maryland, California, Washington, Arizona, Arizona State, UCLA, USC, Boston College, Florida, North Carolina, Dartmouth and Columbia.

[2] He was an attendee at Jake Reed's Elite 102 Blue Chip lacrosse camp and was recruited by Maryland, Johns Hopkins, Yale, Navy, Georgetown, North Carolina, Duke, Cornell and Brown before signing a letter of intent to go to Notre Dame in December 2005.

Following high school, Yeatman attended the University of Notre Dame, where he played both lacrosse (named All American) and football.

Yeatman played in every game of his career at Notre Dame in football used predominantly as a blocking tight end.

His Freshman year, Yeatman was the leading scorer on the Notre Dame lacrosse team with 46 points on 21 goals and 25 assists.