NEW ORLEANS -- Former Xavier University forward Sydney Coleman has dumped dunking - his favorite basketball feat - in favor of a new sport - a switch which if successful, will allow him to follow the unorthodox NFL path of All-Pro tight end Jimmy Graham.
Coleman wants to play for the New Orleans Saints.
He worked out for the Saints in late March, and is scheduled to showcase what he’s learned in a Friday workout. Coleman’s improvements, if substantial, could earn him an invitation to Saints mini camp.
Not that his challenges will end.
It’s premature to consider Coleman, a six feet, seven inch, 234 lbs., native of Meridian, Miss., the next Jimmy Graham - the former rebounding power forward from the University of Miami basketball team whom the Saints transformed into one of the NFL’s top offensive play makers before trading him this offseason to Seattle. Coleman, after all, has never played organized football.
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