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American Stories: The Chronicles of Reddick

Hard work paid off for Temple's Haason Reddick, who celebrated his selection in the NFL Draft with 70,000 Philadelphia sports fans

by Dick Weiss

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 .