IRVINE, Calif. -- Los Angeles Rams punter Johnny Hekker paid tribute to former Michigan State punter Mike Sadler by wearing the jersey number of the four-time Academic All-American who was killed in a car accident in Wisconsin on July 23.
Hekker wore Sadler's No. 3 on Monday and will continue to do so during training camp to honor his friend and Nebraska punter Sam Foltz, who died in a single-vehicle crash after attending a kicking camp.
"Mike was a really, really special person," Hekker said. "Think about all the lives he touched and Sam touched, they squeezed a lot of life into the years that they were here.