From last Thursday night until Saturday afternoon, hundreds of hopeful football players watched their televisions and phones in hopes they would be selected in the National Football League’s draft. In the end, only 256 were selected. Former Southern Regional football linebacker Glenn Carson was not among those 256, but his phone certainly was not silent.
Shortly after the draft, the Arizona Cardinals picked up Carson, whoplayed forPenn State, as an undrafted free agent.
Carson’s high school coach, Chuck Donohue Sr., said he knew that Carson was going have a shot at the NFL.
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