When All-Pro Jahri Evans was an NFL rookie, he traveled to rural Pennsylvania to watch a Division II football game.
Bloomsburg at Mansfield.
Few appreciated that more than Bloomsburg coach Danny Hale, who took a chance on Evans out of high school without Evans having played a down during his senior year.
"I think it's something special for a guy down there in New Orleans who's willing to give up that weekend to fly up here to upstate Pennsylvania in the cold and wet," Hale said. "He really is a special guy _ pretty humble, a hard worker and a great kid. When he was here it was five years of just doing what you tell him."
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