One assumed his football dream was dead after being cut by his college team as a freshman walk-on.
A third hurt his knee so badly that doctors warned him they might have to amputate his lower leg.
In the playoffs, the Eagles have only ramped up the pressure, sacking Daniel Jones five times in the divisional round before abruptly waylaying Brock Purdy’s magical ascent in the first quarter of the NFC championship game. Now comes the ultimate test: Patrick Mahomes on the sport’s biggest stage.Javon Hargrave: The zero-star recruit
Hargrave still “could have picked between plenty of colleges,” his former high school coach said, except he wasn’t able to meet the NCAA’s minimum academic requirements. College coaches who watched video of Hargrave bulldozing opposing offensive linemen would stop by North Rowan High School eager to recruit him. “Then you’d pull a transcript,” said former North Rowan coach Tasker Fleming, “and they’d get kind of quiet.
Hargrave might be working a 9-to-5 job nowadays were it not for a football scout and regional recruiting writer who didn’t want to see his pass-rushing talent go to waste. Jason Pughe sent Hargrave’s high school highlight video to a friend who coached at South Carolina State and urged him to take a look.
“Are you kidding me?” Blanchard responded. “Watch his first step. This kid has something nobody else does. He just isn’t in shape, but this kid is going to be just fine.” In the mornings, students attended traditional classes. In the afternoons, they received training at a career center across the parking lot.
Brandon Graham was already considered one of the top incoming freshmen in Detroit in 2002 when he followed some former youth league teammates to Crockett. Oden said that Graham’s parents liked the small-school environment at Crockett and the fact that their son had a chance to play varsity football right away.
Graham helped lead Crockett to the state semifinals as a junior and to the district title game as a senior. Along the way, he emerged as one of the nation’s most coveted linebacker recruits and a leader who put the interests of the team above his own. The bonds that Graham made at Crockett are everlasting even if the school is now defunct. In the wake of the Eagles’ NFC Championship game victory over San Francisco, Graham texted Oden to ask for his date of birth and those of his family. That was how Oden learned that Graham plans to fly him and his family to Arizona for the Super Bowl.
Those injuries left Reddick with no tape to show college coaches, no tangible evidence that he was worthy of a scholarship offer. The torn meniscus might have been the end of his football career except that Brown was a family friend who had trained Reddick prior to his injuries and believed in his talent.
Rhule saw more potential in Reddick than Addazio appeared to, but figuring out where to deploy him proved difficult. For two years, Reddick played on special teams and served as a reserve safety, linebacker and defensive end, filling in wherever he was needed most from week to week. Selected 13th overall by the Arizona Cardinals in 2017, Reddick struggled to make an early impact. The Cardinals moved him inside for his first three seasons before Reddick persuaded Kliff Kingsbury to move him back to the edge in 2020.
Richard Morgan remembers every haunting detail — the violent collision, the dangling leg and the sickening silence. “I’ve been coaching for 30 years, and that’s right up there with the worst moments of my career,” Morgan told Yahoo Sports. “You feel so bad for the young man because you know how good a player he is and how hard he has worked.”
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