Frank Edelman remembers the first sight of his teenage son as a high school quarterback. It wasn't pretty.
"Jules was 5-[foot]-2 or 5-[foot]-3 as a junior on varsity, just tiny," Edelman said. "All you saw was his head over center."
Little Jules, or Julian, grew 7 or 8 inches before the start of his senior season at Woodside High in Woodside, California.
"And then all hell broke loose," his father recalled from the auto service shop he still runs more than 3,000 miles from Gillette Stadium. "Jules started dominating just like he had in Pop Warner.