Jacob Wiegand, Deseret News
HERRIMAN — When Paul Lasike was released from the Chicago Bears 18 months ago, he assumed his days as a professional athlete were over.
“I was walking around at 270-275 (at 5-foot-11) around this time last year,” the former BYU fullback said laughing. “I realized fairly quickly that I was done with football after they released me. And then Kimball (Kjar) called me.”
In fact, Kjar, who coached Lasike when he played rugby for BYU from 2009-2014, was hoping he would return to the sport that brought him to Utah, and help him build the first U.