My senior season in Happy Valley, however, was disappointing, and I went undrafted. In fact, I wasn’t sure if an NFL opportunity would ever present itself. It’s best explained from the beginning. I weighed 150 pounds soaking wet in high school, so upon graduation, the combined total of D-I scholarship offers in my inbox was a whopping zero. By a twist of fate, I walked on at Penn State and played under the late Joe Paterno. To have the kind of playing-career experience that I had in the NFL was nothing short of amazing, and my level of gratitude for the journey - the ups, the downs, the in-between - is immeasurable. In short, my NFL story is hard to believe, and it’s filled with a plethora of “pinch-me” moments. “All good things must come to an end.” The meaning of that saying is pretty simple, really. Great things in life cannot last forever.
