Official Site of the Colts · Aug 21, 2015
Former Rugby Star Daniel Adongo Plays In First NFL Defensive Setting
Intro: Sunday’s preseason opener for the Colts also meant the first time that former rugby star Daniel Adongo had ever logged defensive minutes in an NFL game.
INDIANAPOLIS – Trent Cole had heard of the former rugby star trying to make it in the NFL.
The paths of Cole and Daniel Adongo to life as a professional football player are polar opposite.
However, when Cole arrived to Indianapolis as a free agent this spring and began to watch Adongo continue to adapt to being a football player, one characteristic looked awfully familiar.
“He’s very relentless,” Cole says of the 6-5, 252-pound Adongo.
