OVER THE holiday weekend, after Denzel Rice told his coaches back at Coastal Carolina he'd made the Eagles' 53-man roster, they announced it to the entire team, Rice said yesterday.
Though there are a handful of former Chanticleers in the NFL, Rice is the only one who made it as a rookie this year, and the only undrafted rookie, from any school, to make the Eagles.
"I have a lot of people back home rooting for me. I've gotten a lot of congratulations from Coastal," said Rice, a 6-foot, 196-pound corner, who grew up in Winston-Salem, N.