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There is only one place to start. “It’s always the name,” Ironhead Gallon said with a smile. The linebacker-turned-safety Mark Grace Jersey out of Georgia Southern, one of the Cardinals’ undrafted rookies, doesn’t have “Ironhead” on his birth certificate. His given name is Deshawntee. But his father Shawn – a military man – was a fan of long-time NFL running Miguel Montero Jersey back Craig “Ironhead” Heyward. So when Deshawntee was little, he too was called Ironhead. “It kind of stuck with me,” Gallon said. “I didn’t like the nickname at first, but I kind of grew into it.” On a team that has a Frostee, a Scooby, a Gump (Hayes, another undrafted rookie) and a Honey Badger, Ironhead still stands “When you introduce Ryne Sandberg Jersey yourself to people as Ironhead, I’m pretty sure they know you mean business,” fellow safety Tyvon Branch said with a laugh. Nicknames don’t earn you jobs on an NFL roster, of course. That can only come through performance, something that is difficult to do as an undrafted rookie, especially one who was playing middle linebacker his last year of college. But by Tim Federowicz Jersey the end of OTAs – helped, in part, because second-round safety Budda Baker was absent since his college class had not yet graduated – Gallon was getting reps on the first field. |
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