Chargers News: Former Bolts Pro Bowler Details Painful NFL Combine Stint
With the NFL Combine well underway in Indianapolis, your Los Angeles Chargers under new general manager Joe Hortiz and new head coach Jim Harbaugh (both in attendance) appear focused on using their current seven draft picks to bolster the club's roster around Pro Bowl franchise quarterback Justin Herbert.
A reflective Lorenzo Brown, who made four Pro Bowls and the NFL's 2000s All-Decade Team while a fullback for the former San Diego Chargers, chatted with Bleav In Chargers podcast co-host Matt "Money" Smith on a new episode of their podcast.
Brown, who was also member of his college wrestling team while turning NFL scouts' heads at Fresno State, had a bit of a scheduling conflict ahead of his own NFL Combine many moons ago.
"I remember, Matt, going to the Combine. I remember being at Fresno State, wrestling on a Saturday night, right in the combine of wrestling beat Oklahoma State. We had a wrestling duel," Neal revealed. "My coach got me to do this. And then I was able to fly out like at 4 o'clock, fly out of Fresno."
"So I was going to get there that night, sleep Sunday," Neal continued. "My flight got delayed. I go overtime, I win the match, we win the duel. [Wrestling coach Dennis] DeLiddo takes me to the airport. My flight out of Fresno is delayed, not leaving till the redeye. So I jump on the redeye. I get to have like two hours to lay down when I get to my hotel. I had a horrible combine. I did 245 like 25 times. I've been doing it 38 times, 40 times. I ran a 4.7 [40-yard dash]. I came back with my coach, who was there to pick me up at the airport. [National Wrestling Hall of Fame coach] Dennis DeLiddo, the wrestling coach, he wanted to pick me up because he was like, 'I'm sorry,' I walked away from him. I got my own ride home. I was so pissed off at my wrestling coach because I was at the Combine and I absolutely stunk it up, because it's vigorous."
