"There's 40,000 West Point graduates behind you," read one. Another is from overseas: "Go after the NFL dream and ignore anybody who says that deploying is the only way to serve. I'm in Afghanistan right now, and I'll happily tell anyone who disagrees with your choice that the world has enough 2LT's [second lieutenants] to let a guy with the potential for a pro career to give that dream a shot."A few hours later, we got a phone call from a coach with the ," said Dan Orlovsky Sr., a former nose tackle at the . "He was driving over the George Washington Bridge in New York City and wanted to offer Danny a scholarship, right then. Those kind of things happened all the time.".

"It speaks to his character that he was there waiting, that he was excited to meet me and expressed his excitement, you know, shoring up the offensive line a bit. He explained to me that we, the Oline, is his No. 1 insurance policy, so he likes to take care of us.De