NFL Draft prep of Hampton's Dazz Newsome features hometown ties

Posted Apr 15, 2021
Dazz Newsome is currently training in Atlanta for the NFL Draft. Among the pros with whom he's working out as he prepares for the Draft in two weeks? His fellow Hampton High School alumnus, Tyrod Taylor. "I'm really trying not to get too happy until it happens, but it's really crazy," Newsome said. "I was a water boy until my eighth grade year." (WTKR.com)

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