While these bubble players all got caught in the normal cutdown-day carnage as both the Los Angeles Rams and Chargers reduced their rosters, expanded practice squads opened up extra spots and increased their chances of continuing with their NFL dreams.
, where the team's new head coach was Johnston's coach at Baylor and his father, Kent Johnston, is the team's director of player wellness. ♦ Nose tackle Breiden Fehoko was signed by the Chargers as an undrafted rookie out of LSU in late April.
He's cut, signs to the practice squad and has an emotional Zoom call with his family in one of the episode's most poignant moments . ♦ Running back Darius Bradwell was signed by the Chargers as an undrafted rookie out of Tulane after this year's draft. He came into training camp overweight and out of shape, and got a verbal dressing down by team strength coach John Lott in this season's first"Hard Knocks" episode: "Your stinkin' head coach is an ex-running back, so he's going to look at you like a German Shepherd with his ears up at an airport. ... You gotta get your stinkin' mind right. Remember what I told you, this ain't no pie-eating contest." Ouch! "First couple days, I'm looking and thinking 'we're going to need to bring somebody else in,'" Chargers GM Tom Telesco tells Bradwell — who's listed at 6-0, 235 — on cutdown day."The first couple of days, you were in rough shape. You just weren't ready to go.Like the other aforementioned roster longshots, Bradwell earned a practice squad spot. NFL aspirations live and die every year on"Hard Knocks," and that month-long human drama continued to make the show genuinely satisfying, even in godforsaken 2020.
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