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How Toledo's Ka'dar Hollman went from walk-on to possible NFL draft pick

Dave Birkett, Carlos Monarrez debate takeaways from Bob Quinn's predraft Q&A, guess which player Lions will draft at No. 8. Filmed April 18, 2019. Dave Birkett and Carlos Monarrez, Detroit Free Press

When he first came home from prep school, his football dream on hold as he chased a scholarship that was still years away from materializing, Ka’dar Hollman’s parents told him in no uncertain terms he had to get a job.

So Hollman went out and found temp work at a local bread factory, where he stood shoulder-to-shoulder with co-workers at a conveyor belt for eight hours a day, sifting through loaves of bread making sure they were fit to eat.