Frankie Luvu’s sport of choice as a kid was soccer. His first two years of college football came primarily on special teams.
Luvu, an outside linebacker from the tiny South Pacific island of American Samoa, never imagined this kind of future. He saw football as a way to get off the island, not as a potentially profitable career.
“Man, it’s crazy,” Luvu said on Wednesday after the Jets’ final training camp practice of the summer. “I never thought I would make it this far.