INDIANAPOLIS --- Colts right guard Hugh Thornton knows he’s starting in the National Football League thanks in part to his first love, Greco-Roman Wrestling, which taught him to fight through every setback that comes his way.
Thornton became a state champion heavyweight wrestler his junior year of high school in Idaho before moving to Ohio his senior year and finishing 3rd in the state, but that wasn’t before working for years to perfect his craft.
“I wasn’t really good at first, but I saw myself being better than what I was at the time,” said Thornton.