Washington rookie Cole Holcomb learned persistence from his dad, a Navy cook and vacuum salesman

Posted Aug 8, 2019
Everyone is noticing Cole Holcomb now. He is the player whose name the coaches keep mentioning and the fans keep calling, the one who seems smaller than the other linebackers, who keeps pushing. Then he walks off the field to call the only man who knows as much as he about the word that has come to define his football life: persistence. (Washington Post)

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