Daily News | Titans nose tackle Teair Tart is glad he kept his cleats on at West Philly High
He was playing for Walter D. Palmer when Patrick spotted him on the court. The school, which closed in 2014, didn’t have a football team. So Patrick called Tart’s mother that day from the gym and asked her to send her son to West Philly.
Tart got to ASA College in Brooklyn — which regularly sends players to Division 1 schools — and looked to be on his way in January 2016. Alabama, a week after winning a national championship, offered him a scholarship. Three years earlier, he was playing basketball in West Philly. Now Nick Saban wanted him.
Tart left Brooklyn to come home. Patrick helped him get to Valley Forge Military Academy and asked them to not even talk about football. Tart, dealing with the loss of his brother, needed a break. He played two seasons for FIU, and impressed at the NFLPA Collegiate Bowl, but he was not one of the 255 players selected in the 2020 NFL draft. He went to training camp with the Titans and earned a spot on their practice squad. The Titans, Tart said, give every player a chance no matter what draft pick they were.Tart made his NFL debut in November 2020 and cracked the starting lineup in Week 16.
Patrick wasn’t at the basketball tournament 10 years ago to recruit football players. He had nothing to do that day, so he figured he would watch some of the students he coached in football and track play basketball. And then he saw Tart. Patrick will be at Lincoln Financial Field on Sunday afternoon when Tart runs out of the tunnel to play against the team he grew up rooting for. Tart will have 15 family members in the stands and he asked his old coach to pick five players — “I want the kids who go unnoticed and work hard and come to practice every day,” Tart said — to bring with him.
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