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Small-school pass-rush star Chris Garrett navigating pandemic hurdles to chase NFL dreamsEric Edholm
February 5, 2021·12 min read
As if Sean Smith didn’t have enough on his plate as the men’s basketball associate head coach at Wisconsin Lutheran, a Division-III school in Milwaukee, and as a father to 1- and 2-year-old daughters, he felt he had no choice but to take on a third big job: helping his friend Chris Garrett get drafted into the NFL.
Garrett put up utterly absurd numbers in three years as a pass rusher at Division-II Concordia-St. Paul. But Garrett’s path to the NFL draft took a strange, sudden turn in what should have been his senior season, just as it did for many other prospects at the FCS level and lower, once COVID-19 threw college football into the disposal last year.
So to help his friend of only the past few years navigate the uncertainty last fall, the 28-year-old Smith took over part of Garrett’s draft preparations — not as his agent, but as his psuedo-manager.
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