It’s been a long and winding road for Oregon DT Jamaree Caldwell to get to where he is now. He spent a year at Independence Community College in JUCO football before getting an offer from Houston. That Houston offer alone felt like the end of a feel-good story for Caldwell, but it was only just the beginning on his path to now becoming a draftable player for the upcoming 2025 NFL Draft out of the University of Oregon.
His Houston player page shows “Unique fact: gave up on football once,” and references his best advice being “quit now, you quit forever – that made him start playing football again.