While gridirons nationwide become more active, a former football fanatic preps to go pro in the sport that shares some similarities.
As a kid, Charles Wroten III had D-I dreams like any other athletic teen. But before his senior season in high school, those aspirations suddenly didn’t involve the pigskin and instead featured a considerably larger ball.
More than 10 years have passed, and the ex-ECU club rugby standout is now a week away from watching the Major League Rugby Draft. If he’s fortunate enough to hear his name called by one of the 12 MLR teams, it will mark yet another seminal scene in a made-for-TV story.
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