He Didn’t Play High School or College Football. Now He’s in the N.F.L.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — After pouring in 19 points for Coastal Carolina in a first-round loss to Southern Miss in the Sun Belt Conference tournament on March 4, Colin Granger went back to the team hotel in Pensacola, Fla., to have dinner with his parents and discuss his future.

In football.

Granger had told Chanticleers coach Justin Gray that if Coastal went on an unexpected run in the conference tourney, it would be his sign that he would continue his basketball career overseas, where he had multiple offers from professional teams.

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If not, Granger would become the first client of George Fant, the 10-year NFL veteran who was starting a business in which

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