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Former Rugby Star Daniel Adongo Plays In First NFL Defensive Setting

INDIANAPOLISTrent 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.