- Eli Herring
Eli Herring is a former
Brigham Young University offensive tackle who for religious reasons involving working on the Sabbath decided not to play in theNational Football League and made his intention clear to all NFL teams prior to the1995 NFL draft . Nonetheless, the devoutMormon was drafted in the 6th round by theOakland Raiders . He now is married with four children and works as a school teacher and assistant football coach at Mountain View High School inOrem, Utah . He is one of few people to get drafted in the NFL after declaring an intention never to play.Herring served as a missionary for the LDS church in
Argentina during one of that nation's periods of hyper-inflation. [ [http://www.lds.org/ldsorg/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=024644f8f206c010VgnVCM1000004d82620aRCRD&locale=0&sourceId=9d2a0e2cbc3fb010VgnVCM1000004d82620a____&hideNav=1 LDS.org - New Era Article - To Keep It Holy ] ]References
http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/draft07/news/story?id=2835262
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