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Footy anyone? Panthers sign Australian Rules Football player Eric Wallace
- Updated: July 25, 2016
3:39 PM ET
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Wide receivers coach Ricky Proehl laughed three weeks ago when approached by former college basketball player and Australian Rules Football player Eric Wallace about becoming a member of the Carolina Panthers.
Nobody is laughing now.
The Panthers on Monday signed the 6-foot-6, 260-pound Wallace, who has aspirations of becoming an NFL tight end, to a standard three-year deal.
“I walked into his office and told him I wanted to play for the Carolina Panthers,’’ Wallace told the team website of his conversation with Proehl. “It was a short chuckle at first, and then he was like, ‘Are you serious?’
“I was.’’
The North Carolina native will report to Wofford College in Spartanburg, South Carolina on Wednesday for training camp, the first time he’ll have played American football …
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