Chicken-obsessed Sam Howell brings stellar IQ, leadership into NFL Draft

Posted Apr 25, 2022
The ones who know Sam Howell best chuckle at his affinity for chicken and aversion to steak and fish. "We always used to just get chicken wings," childhood friend Anthony Marple told The Post with a laugh about Howell, the former North Carolina quarterback. "And that’s the thing you’ll get from Sam, right? He doesn’t change who he is for anybody." (New York Post)

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