From retired to the Panthers: How a call from Matt Rhule changed Tecklenburg’s future

At the conclusion of the NFL draft, Matt Rhule made a phone call.OK, he made a lot of phone calls, but his call to Sam Tecklenburg was more unexpected than the rest. Tecklenburg, who spent the past five years at Baylor, decided in January to retire from football, but had remained in contact with his former head coach.He just didn’t necessarily expect to actually hear from him the Saturday of the NFL draft.“(Rhule had said) if I was interested, we could maybe figure something out down the line and that’s kind of what happened,” Tecklenburg said in an interview with The Observer. “(I was surpris…

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