Reno Gazette Journal · May 21, 2018
One Nevada football walk-on put on scholarship while another arrested
(Photo: John Byrne/Nevada athletics)Sam Hammond didn't even know if he was going to play college athletics after being a three-sport standout at Yerington High. Now he's a scholarship athlete.
Coach Jay Norvell has shifted Hammond, a 6-foot-5, 255-pound defensive end, from walk-on to full-ride scholarship starting this summer. Hammond appeared in all 12 games, mostly on special teams, as a redshirt freshman in 2017 while becoming the first Yerington alum to earn a Wolf Pack football letter since Scott Lommori in 1987.