Amari Cooper called it a “once-in-a-lifetime story. I never heard of anything like that until he did it.”
The Raiders’ receiver was talking about a childhood friend who didn’t play high school football and was discovered by a junior college when he was playing in the park.
That same friend who was walking off the practice field in Napa.
Undrafted free-agent Johnny Holton.
Holton turned some heads with back-to-back deep catches in Monday’s practice, just as he did in that Miami park five years ago.
“I was starting to think it was over for me and football, but I kept my faith,” Holton said.