There are of a lot of interesting storylines to go along with this year’s Super Bowl but there’s one a lot of people may not know about. And, it lies deep on the Tampa Bucs roster, with a young player who was born and raised in South Florida and who has a unique connection to both the Chiefs and Bucs that possibly no other player on the Super Bowl field has. “During the draft he wasn’t picked. No one had called him yet,” said Tarnesha Rachel. “So he was really down. We were down.” Rachel’s son is Tampa cornerback Herb Miller. Miller has been through tough times before. “I remember when I started playing football when I was 4. I have two uncles, they’re twins. They were 8 and we were on the same team. I didn’t play at all.”Miller didn’t only eventually get on the field, he flourished and eventually earned a scholarship to Florida Atlantic University and then entered the NFL draft. That’s when an interesting, fateful chain of events began. Miller said, “It’s crazy. I don’t know. I never would have thought it would have been like this.” Miller went undrafted in 2019 but was signed by the Kansas City Chiefs as a free agent, only to be cut right before the season. The Chiefs went on to win the Super Bowl without Miller. “He literally was giving up on football,” said Rachel. However, his family, especially his grandmother, just wouldn’t let that happen. Rachel said, “She always told him when one door closes, another door is waiting for you to walk through.” That door was in Tampa. The Bucs signed Miller, who had started to put in applications to be a police officer, thinking his career was over. But, his destiny awaited. Miller’s first regular season NFL game while on the active roster was against on November 28th against the Chiefs. The same team that cut him the year before. “You can’t make it up. If I told the story to anybody, they’d be like nah, you’re not forreal,” said Miller. “Now we come back this year and we’re playing them in the Super Bowl, it’s kinda crazy.” Rachel added, “When I knew we had the opportunity to meet them in the Super Bowl, we were ecstatic, everyone was ecstatic.” Miller says his family has always been there to push him, encourage him and believe in him. “Even when I got to college. I used to always look in the stands and look for them. They were always there,” said Miller. “That’s what motivates me. That’s what keeps me going.”“I tell him all the time, whenever you think about it, you thank God all the way,” added Rachel.
There are of a lot of interesting storylines to go along with this year’s Super Bowl but there’s one a lot of people may not know about. And, it lies deep on the Tampa Bucs roster, with a young player who was born and raised in South Florida and who has a unique connection to both the Chiefs and Bucs that possibly no other player on the Super Bowl field has.
“During the draft he wasn’t picked. No one had called him yet,” said Tarnesha Rachel. “So he was really down. We were down.”
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Rachel’s son is Tampa cornerback Herb Miller. Miller has been through tough times before.
“I remember when I started playing football when I was 4. I have two uncles, they’re twins. They were 8 and we were on the same team. I didn’t play at all.”
Miller didn’t only eventually get on the field, he flourished and eventually earned a scholarship to Florida Atlantic University and then entered the NFL draft. That’s when an interesting, fateful chain of events began.
Miller said, “It’s crazy. I don’t know. I never would have thought it would have been like this.”
Miller went undrafted in 2019 but was signed by the Kansas City Chiefs as a free agent, only to be cut right before the season.
The Chiefs went on to win the Super Bowl without Miller.
“He literally was giving up on football,” said Rachel.
However, his family, especially his grandmother, just wouldn’t let that happen.
Rachel said, “She always told him when one door closes, another door is waiting for you to walk through.”
That door was in Tampa. The Bucs signed Miller, who had started to put in applications to be a police officer, thinking his career was over.
But, his destiny awaited. Miller’s first regular season NFL game while on the active roster was against on November 28th against the Chiefs. The same team that cut him the year before.
“You can’t make it up. If I told the story to anybody, they’d be like nah, you’re not forreal,” said Miller. “Now we come back this year and we’re playing them in the Super Bowl, it’s kinda crazy.”
Rachel added, “When I knew we had the opportunity to meet them in the Super Bowl, we were ecstatic, everyone was ecstatic.”
Miller says his family has always been there to push him, encourage him and believe in him.
“Even when I got to college. I used to always look in the stands and look for them. They were always there,” said Miller. “That’s what motivates me. That’s what keeps me going.”
“I tell him all the time, whenever you think about it, you thank God all the way,” added Rachel.
February 08, 2021 at 03:38AM
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