You’re not supposed to make it to the NFL when you get cut as a walk-on from your JUCO basketball team. You’re not supposed to make it to the NFL when you can’t get any FBS offers after being a standout JUCO returner. You’re not supposed to make it to the NFL when you’ve been cut from the Canadian and Arena Football League. Damon Sheehy Giuseppi did all of that, and he made it to NFL and scored a punt return touchdown in his first pre-season game with the Browns.
Sheehy-Guiseppi had to finesse his way into a Browns invite-only tryout in Miami that he wasn’t invited to in order to even get a look. He impressed enough at the tryout to get another one in Cleveland. He slept on park benches and in gyms because he couldn’t afford to stay anywhere else. That didn’t stop him from impressing once again at the Cleveland tryout, and he was signed.
The pinnacle (for now) of Sheehy-Guiseppi’s hard work and persistence came to a head when he took a punt return 86 yards to the house in his first pre-season game.
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