Rattler pride rears its head

Watching the NFL draft the last couple of years during his professional career wasn’t easy for Earl Holmes. There was a problem somewhere, Holmes thought. That no FAMU Rattlers’ names were being called bothered him. Other schools around the MEAC have been producing NFL caliber players consistently. Bethune-Cookman and Hampton universities have sent quite a few since FAMU’s Quinn Gray went to the NFL in 2002.

And Gray had to take the free agent route to the NFL after graduating from FAMU. “We are not the big dog anymore,” Holmes said. “There were bigger fish in the pond and that got to me a little bit.” That has to be what they call Rattler pride. In the last 12 years, Holmes and Gray are the only former Rattlers to have played in the NFL.

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