Will Kevin Brock Make the Final Roster?

6-foot-5, 255-pound rookie tight end Kevin Brock knows what it’s like to play out a waiting game. The dedicated player spent four years as a walk-on for Rutgers University’s football program before finally earning a scholarship in his redshirt senior year at the school, and now the undrafted rookie is about to work his way up again, signing with the Carolina Panthers in April and having to do it all over again. Brock, a native of Hackensack, NJ, has been pouring every ounce of effort and sweat into the football field over the last couple months at the Panthers’ set of summer school practices, and now he’ll hopefully get to stick around for training camp, coming up early next month in South Carolina.

Though he’s now a hard-hitting player competing with some of the best in the entire NFL, Kevin Brock has a shot at making the Panthers’ final roster in the next few weeks, especially as the tight end has experience working his way up the totem pole. “It’s familiar territory,” Brock recently said. “You come in and you’ve got to work your way up. As a walk-on, you definitely have to earn your keep. You have to show the coaches that you can make plays and that you can be an asset to the offense. It’s the same way here.” We’ll find out over the next several weeks if Brock is to be a Panther for the ‘09 season.

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