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Chargers' Adderley, a rookie with a big legacy, can lay out like Mays

COSTA MESA, Calif. -- Los Angeles Chargers defensive backs coach Ron Milus can point to the play when Nasir Adderley, the team's second-round pick out of Delaware, grabbed his attention. It's when the rookie safety with ties to the Pro Football Hall of Fame looked like a Hall of Famer from a different sport.

It's late in the second half of a win over the University of Richmond when Adderley sprints deep down the field and makes an acrobatic, diving catch for an interception.

"It's a pump fake," Milus says, "the guy does a double move and he starts down the middle of the field.