When Sam Bradford let the ball loose looking for his reliable target of Jordan Matthews, he had no idea that he was about to give birth to a star when it was caught.
As the ball rose to the air off the deflection of Matthew’s hands, everyone watching gasped as a young Falcon swooped in underneath the ball falling to the turf. It was in that moment that the NFL and the world took notice of the man once overlooked by many, but now he was the superstar.
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