No one could have expected Griffin Neal to end up at Tulane’s pro day.
He was busy working out with his quarterback coach Rudy Carpenter, trying to perfect his craft and prepare for his next opportunity, when they heard the Green Wave didn’t have a senior quarterback to throw passes at the workout.
Carpenter and his partner, Rod Dowhower, got on the phone and started pulling strings. They got Neal in included in the event.
It was a long shot. Not many people outside of Minnesota or his hometown of Fargo, North Dakota, had ever heard of Neal, who played at Division III Concordia College and then spent the past year playing in a semipro league in Germany.