Luther Bradley was in South Carolina a few years ago for his twin sister Lucinda's retirement party when his nephew, Brad Holmes, the Los Angeles Rams' director of college scouting, asked if he wanted to tag along that week to a Gamecocks spring practice.
Bradley, the Detroit Lions' first-round pick in 1978, happily agreed, and when he spent the day with Holmes, he was amazed by what he saw.
"Just the detail of the things that he was looking at," Bradley recalled Wednesday. "I mean, most guys say, 'Oh, he looks like he’s fast.' Or, 'He can turn his hips.