Kickstarter: Former TCU star trades NFL for entrepreneurship
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The 22-year-old placekicker – fresh off a stellar career at Texas Christian University, where he became the Big 12’s all-time leader in field goals made – had just returned home to Arlington after being released by the Jacksonville Jaguars the day before. Less than 24 hours after he landed on Texas soil, his agent called and said the Cleveland Browns had claimed Oberkrom off waivers. A plane would be booked to fly him to Cleveland that same evening.
The Browns would call in 10 minutes to brief him on everything, his agent said.
Then Oberkrom, who was driving at the time, decided to pull over to the closest parking lot and just take a moment to think.
“I just got this really weird feeling,†he said. “I just felt like God was saying, ‘No, this isn’t for you. Do something else.’ â€