Defensive Tackle · Philadelphia Eagles

Uar Bernard

Rookie

The Eagles went to Nigeria and found someone they couldn't leave without

Most rookies get found at a combine or a college pro day. Uar Bernard got found in Nigeria.

Bernard is a defensive tackle — the kind of player whose job is to wreck the plans of whoever has the ball — and he is now doing that job for the Philadelphia Eagles. He did not come up through the usual path. He came from Nigeria, where the Eagles went looking and, apparently, found exactly what they were looking for.

Bernard believes Nigeria has more players like him. Talent that has never been in a film room, never been through a draft process, never had a scout sit in the bleachers and write a name down. That belief is not abstract for him. He is the evidence.

For the Eagles, it is a bet on a player most teams never would have seen. For Bernard, it is something bigger — the beginning of a path that, until recently, did not exist.

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