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Former Rugby Star Daniel Adongo Plays In First NFL Defensive Setting

INDIANAPOLIS – Trent Cole had heard of the former rugby star trying to make it in the NFL.

The paths of Cole and Daniel Adongo to life as a professional football player are polar opposite.

However, when Cole arrived to Indianapolis as a free agent this spring and began to watch Adongo continue to adapt to being a football player, one characteristic looked awfully familiar.

“He’s very relentless,” Cole says of the 6-5, 252-pound Adongo.

“He reminds me of myself, me coming into the league. He’s octane.