The Chronicles of Reddick

PHILADELPHIA– The feel-good story of the 2017 NFL Draft was Temple linebacker Hasson Reddick, who grew up just across the river in Camden, New Jersey, and played a part straight out of Rocky, going from a 185-pound walk-on cornerback who started his college career as the last man on the depth chart to the 13th pick in the first round of the league’s first outdoor draft .

The 6-2, 236-pound Reddick, decked out in a black and white tuxedo jacket, a cherry red Temple tie and pocket square, made an appearance at the red carpet on the same Art Museum steps made famous by Sylvester Stallone, who triumphantly ran up them when he was the star of an Oscar-winning movie about a washed-up fighter from South Philadelphia who gets an unlikely shot at the heavyweight title.

Read the full article at American Athletic Conference (http://theamerican.org).