WEEKEND SPECIAL - Long Shot: The Kyle Dugger Story

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🗓️ 31 October 2020

⏱️ 33 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

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0:00.0	Kyle Dugger has always loved football.
0:07.0	At a young age, my parents told me I was sitting in front of the TV when I was like a toddler.
0:12.0	They'd leave the room and I come back in our city like in the same game.
0:15.0	Like full games and started to finish at a young age.
0:17.0	And I feel like I took interest in as a kid.
0:19.0	And that interest, it turned into a passion.
0:22.1	I fell in love with it growing up.
0:23.7	And it taught me different things about life,
0:25.6	so that I continue to fall in love with and have a deeper passion for it.
0:29.0	I don't think I remember going to really lose that no matter what.
0:32.2	Now Dugger doesn't have to.
0:33.7	In April, the Lenore Ryan University's safety was taken in the second round of the 2020 NFL draft, 37th overall to the New England Patriots.
0:43.3	Not only was Dugger the first player drafted by Bill Belichick in the post-Tom Brady Patriots era, but he was the highest drafted Division 2 prospect this century.
0:52.4	You'd have to go back to 1999 when the Seahawks took Lamar King 22nd overall to find a
0:57.9	higher drafted player.
0:59.3	But how did this happen?
1:00.8	I'm Cole Weinstein, and this is Locked-on Presents, Longshot, the Kyle Dugger story.
1:09.2	This is Lockdowne Presents, the new series featuring sports stories that change the games and teams we love to follow from the Locked-on podcast network.
1:18.5	To hear this podcast and more great sports stories, search and subscribe to Lockdown Presents wherever you listen to podcasts.
1:26.9	Kyle Dugger ended up playing in Division II for the same reason
1:29.9	thousands of other athletes do.
1:31.9	It was his only choice.
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