NFL helping launch of wheelchair football league at draft – By Barry Wilner (AP News) / April 23 2020
The competitive drive never has left Brad Lang, who hopes to be playing football in the fall.
In the first Wheelchair Football League, which is being launched by Disabled Sports USA.
On Saturday, Lang, a Marine veteran who lost both legs in an explosion while on patrol in Afghanistan in 2011, will announce a draft pick for the Carolina Panthers. He was selected by the NFL to represent the new league that plans to play in Chicago, Los Angeles, Phoenix and Kansas City, Missouri.
He’s excited about that opportunity, even with the draft being conducted digitally.
“It’s definitely a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity,” Lang says. “Something I never would have had the dream to have the opportunity to do.”
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