Schiano Brings LeGrand to Tampa Bay BuccaneersIf you have been following BeyondUSports for the past year, then you know the Eric LeGrand story has touched us and many of you since the very beginning.
Eric LeGrand’s dream has always been to play in the NFL. Its why he chose to play under coach Greg Schiano at Rutgers, in hopes of that program enabling those dreams into becoming reality one day. When LeGrand suffered a severe spinal injury that left him paralyzed from the neck down, his dreams were tragically ended…at least until his former coach became the new coach of the Tampa Bay Bucs.
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Coach Schiano did one of the classiest things I’ve heard a football coach do in very long while. He convinced the Tampa Bay Bucs organization to sign the college free agent defensive tackle.
Said Schiano in a press release by the Bucs:
“Leading up to the draft, I couldn’t help but think that this should’ve been Eric’s draft class,” said Schiano in a statement. “This ...
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