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File this under a Football feel good story, would like to see him wind up a Patriot, but that is an uncertainty. In the world of excess and hype, it is refreshing to read about a kid who is very grounded and knows his place in the world.
http://www.projo.com/sports/kevinmcnamara/sp_fbn_DeOssie26_04-26-07_UD5D2U5.38c7658.html
PROVIDENCE — The dream, one that just a few years ago was strictly fantasy, is now in sight. Zak DeOssie can’t wait much longer.
Football runs through DeOssie’s veins. As a 10-year-old, he bopped around Patriots training camp at Bryant College while his father, Steve, worked on his long-snapping skills. As a teenager, he returned to Bryant and threw passes alongside Drew Bledsoe and Tom Brady as a Patriot ball boy.
When he left Phillips Andover Academy and enrolled at Brown four years ago, DeOssie dreamed of throwing TD passes against Harvard and Yale. A life as an NFL linebacker wasn’t on anyone’s radar.
“We watched him as a quarterback and he played a little bit of free safety,” said Brown coach Phil Estes. “When he got here, I think he played one practice at safety. We knew he’d grow, looking at his dad. And the hits he made! He just had great instincts.”
That move ended up changing DeOssie’s football life. This weekend, hopefully Saturday but surely by late Sunday, the 22-year-old will hear his name called during the NFL’s annual college draft. Thanks to that innate ability to hit like a truck and still run like a safety, the 6-foot-4, 250-pounder is likely to become the highest drafted Brown football player in more than 25 years.
http://www.projo.com/sports/kevinmcnamara/sp_fbn_DeOssie26_04-26-07_UD5D2U5.38c7658.html
PROVIDENCE — The dream, one that just a few years ago was strictly fantasy, is now in sight. Zak DeOssie can’t wait much longer.
Football runs through DeOssie’s veins. As a 10-year-old, he bopped around Patriots training camp at Bryant College while his father, Steve, worked on his long-snapping skills. As a teenager, he returned to Bryant and threw passes alongside Drew Bledsoe and Tom Brady as a Patriot ball boy.
When he left Phillips Andover Academy and enrolled at Brown four years ago, DeOssie dreamed of throwing TD passes against Harvard and Yale. A life as an NFL linebacker wasn’t on anyone’s radar.
“We watched him as a quarterback and he played a little bit of free safety,” said Brown coach Phil Estes. “When he got here, I think he played one practice at safety. We knew he’d grow, looking at his dad. And the hits he made! He just had great instincts.”
That move ended up changing DeOssie’s football life. This weekend, hopefully Saturday but surely by late Sunday, the 22-year-old will hear his name called during the NFL’s annual college draft. Thanks to that innate ability to hit like a truck and still run like a safety, the 6-foot-4, 250-pounder is likely to become the highest drafted Brown football player in more than 25 years.
