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Locked On NFL Scouting with the Draft Dudes - Daily podcast covering NFL and College Football scouting

WEEKEND SPECIAL - Long Shot: The Kyle Dugger Story

Locked On NFL Scouting with the Draft Dudes - Daily podcast covering NFL and College Football scouting

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4.6966 Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2020

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Growing up, Kyle Dugger used to watch football for hours. He grew up on gridiron gladiators like Adrian Peterson, Troy Polamalu, Ed Reed and Eric Berry. It was that passion for the game he loved that pushed Dugger to become the highest-drafted Division II prospect in the NFL Draft in two decades. Not only that, but Dugger was New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick’s first draft pick of the post-Tom Brady era. This podcast explores how Dugger went from an undersized freshman running back just trying to make his high school varsity roster to a dominant safety winning the Cliff Harris Award and shining star at the Senior Bowl and NFL Combine. Locked On Presents: Long Shot – The Kyle Dugger Story also gives you an inside look at the NFL draft process from the perspective of the ultimate underdog who beat the system. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Every Team, every topic, everywhere, this is believe.

0:07.0

Kyle Dugger has always loved football.

0:13.7

At a young game, my playing told me I was sitting in front of the TV.

0:17.0

When I was like a toddler, they had leave the room and I come back in our city like the same game,

0:21.6

like full games we started defending at a young age.

0:23.8

And I feel like I took interest as a kid.

0:26.3

And that interest, it turned into a passion.

0:29.1

I fell in love with it growing up,

0:30.6

and it taught me different things about life, that I continue to fall in love with and

0:34.8

having to be the passion for it.

0:35.9

I don't think I meant to really lose that no matter what.

0:39.2

Now Dugger doesn't have to.

0:40.8

In April, the Lenore Ryan University safety was taken in the second round of the 2020

0:45.7

NFL draft. 37th overall to the New England Patriots. Not only was Dugger the first player drafted

0:52.3

by Bill Bellaceck in the post-Tom Brady Patriots era,

0:55.5

but he was the highest drafted Division II Prospect this century.

0:59.0

You'd have to go back to 1999 when the Seahawks took Lamar King 22nd overall to find a higher drafted player.

1:06.0

But how did this happen?

1:08.0

I'm Cole Weinstein and this is Lockdown presents Longshot, the Kyle Dugger story.

1:16.5

This is Lockdon presents,

1:18.5

the new series featuring sports stories

1:20.4

that change the games and teams

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