Cleveland Browns rookie wide receiver Damon Sheehy-Guiseppi stole the show in the team's first preseason game, with an 86-yard punt return for a touchdown against the Washington Redskins. The 24-year-old's path to the NFL is unlike any other.
The 24-year-old's path to the NFL is unlike any other. He wasn't the standout player on a college team. He didn't rise above the rest in the NFL's Scouting Combine. In fact, he last played football on the junior college level. He was also out of cash with nowhere to sleep before he talked his way into a longshot walk-on role in the pros.WHAT A MOMENT 😭
Damon Sheehy-Guiseppi returns a punt 86 yards for a TD — and the whole bench clears to celebrate pic.twitter.com/anLZ3EEgAT — Cleveland Browns August 9, 2019 Four months ago, the Browns said, Sheehy-Guiseppi was sleeping outside a Miami gym after spending his last $200 on training. A former teammate from a flag-football league tipped him off to the time and location of the Browns' spring practice. But Sheehy-Guiseppi had yet another problem: He wasn't invited.He'd done his research and convinced Browns management that he knew the team's vice president of player personnel, Alonzo Highsmith.
— Mike Garafolo August 9, 2019 Thursday night's touchdown helped the Browns beat the Redskins. But to add to the outlandish story, Sheehy-Guiseppi had misplaced his cleats before the game, according to NFL Network's Mike Garafolo, so he was running in star teammate Odell Beckham Jr.'s cleats."I'm just blessed to be healthy and be in the position that I am," Sheehy-Guiseppi said."I just try to stay in the moment and just think about what's to come next.
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