Lowcountry's Chad Hamilton, Edmond Robinson await NFL's call - Charleston Post Courier
That rave review on Hamilton, a former football standout at James Island Charter High School, comes not from an NFL scout — although the 6-2, 292-pound lineman from Coastal Carolina has a good chance to be picked in the NFL draft on Friday or... That’s where Hamilton worked as a sixth-grade math teacher from January until last week, when he resigned to dedicate himself to what looks like will be a pro football career of some duration. Hamilton and former St. John’s standout Edmond Robinson , a Newberry graduate, are two Lowcountry products with a real chance of being chosen by an NFL team as the draft enters its second and third days, with rounds two and three on Friday and... Robinson, a 6-3, 245-pound linebacker, has been on the radar screens of NFL scouts for a while. He played in the East-West Shrine Game and was one of only two Division II players invited to the NFL combine. Hamilton, however, was ready to settle into his teaching career — he graduated from Coastal Carolina with a degree in education in the spring of 2014, and earned his master’s last fall while playing his final season — when he learned that he also... “That actually took me by surprise,” said Hamilton, who was a Shrine Bowl pick and All-Lowcountry player at James Island. “I’ve always been my own biggest critic as a football player. Source: www.postandcourier.com
