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Rattlers alum, current staff Heggs gets NFL internship
Orlando HeggsII is going to the NFL.
Florida A&Ms Head of Football Player Development has secured a Nunn-Wooten Scouting Fellowship with the Los Angeles Chargers.
Last week, Heggs was in Los Angeles for the Chargers minicamp. He will rejoin the Chargers when they report for training camp on July 16.
The Nunn-Wooten Scouting Fellowship Heggs gives a glimpse into the player personnel of NFL teams through professional scouting and college scouting.
Being a well-versed scout, Heggs spoke about what the Nunn-Wooten Scouting Fellowship has taught him so far.
There's a certain verbiage that GMs like to hear talking about area explorers. We attend meetings and pick up the language and dialect that scouts use to describe a player and break down film. Knowing how to go through a workout with a guy trying to make the team, filming workouts and writing reports.
Heggs is in his second summer as a Nunn-Wooten Scouting Fellow. Last year he was a member of the Las Vegas Raiders staff, after serving as the team's assistant general manager, Champion Kellyattended FAMU Footballs 2023 Pro Day.
Heggs did not know that his FAMU classmate, John Wilson, was Kelly's brother-in-law. Wilson wrote Heggs a letter of recommendation for the Raiders scholarship.
A year later, the Chargers became Senior Director of Pro Personnel Louis Clark called Heggs to interview him for the Nunn-Wooten Scouting Fellowship. After a good dialogue between Heggs and Clark, Chargers Assistant General Manager Chad Alexander called Heggs to offer him a fellowship spot.
Through the Nunn-Wooten Scouting Fellowship, Heggs, a former FAMU football player (2020-2021), hopes to be a step toward Blacks gaining access to NFL staff areas.
Being young and Black and trying to get into that realm is very important, said Heggs, 24. We need more Black men and young men in scouting and the workforce, who want to stretch themselves to become graduate assistants and coaches at every level .
There are several positions that weren't really taught about as young black men playing this sport. It is extremely important for us to go scouting.
Orlando Heggs II's FAMU job leads to NFL Nunn-Wooten Scouting Fellowship
A native of Jacksonville, Heggs started playing football at Wake Forest before transferring to FAMU to finish his career.
While playing football and earning his bachelor's degree in interdisciplinary studies, Heggs often thought about what he would do when it was time to hang up the cleats.
After completing his college football career, Heggs worked under FAMU's director of sports performance, Cole Forney, as a strength and conditioning intern. Later, Forney recommended that Heggs pursue the role of FAMU's player development director.
There is life after football. But that doesn't mean you can't be around football, Heggs said.
I had a resume, but didn't know where to send it or what I wanted to do. So I built my portfolio and my resume. I haven't missed a second in football. I was around the boys and the football. Now I'm still busy with football.
Having Head of Player Development on my resume has helped me significantly with my current staffing options.
At FAMU, Heggs ensures Rattlers football has a positive impact on the community through service.
For example, last summer Heggs orchestrated the FAMU football team decorating the R. Frank Nims Middle Schools campus and serving lunch to Griffin Middle School students.
Under Heggs, the Rattlers accumulated more than 300 hours of community service. All in a season where they won their first Celebration Bowl to claim FAMU's 17th Black College Football National Championship.
The Tallahassee community comes out and pays money to see our guys play. So it's huge for our guys to get into their spaces. It also lets the boys know that football isn't everything. So let's find our identity outside of football, Heggs said of his role at FAMU.
Standing outside the lines, but still having a hand in it, is enough for me.
Florida A&M Rattlers 2024 Football Schedule
- August 24 vs. Norfolk State in MEAC/SWAC Challenge, Atlanta* at 7:30 p.m., ABC
- August 31 vs. South Carolina State, 6 p.m., ESPN+
- September 7 in Miami, 6pm, ACC Network
- September 21 in Troy, 7pm Eastern Time, ESPN+
- September 28 vs. Alabama A&M, 6 p.m., ESPN+
- Oct. 5 at Alabama State, 3 p.m. Eastern Time, ESPN+
- Oct. 19 at Jackson State, 3:30 PM Eastern Time, ESPN Network
- Oct. 26 vs. South, 7 p.m., ESPN Network
- Nov. 2 vs. Texas Southern (HOMECOMING), 4 p.m., ESPN+
- Nov. 9 at Prairie View A&M, 3 p.m. Eastern Time, ESPN+
- November 16 vs. Mississippi Valley State, 1 p.m
- Nov. 23 vs. Bethune-Cookman in Florida Classic, Orlando*, 3:30 p.m., ESPN Network
- November 30: FCS Playoffs begin
- December 7: SWAC Championship, LOCATION/TEAMS NV, ESPN2
- Dec. 14: Celebration Bowl, Atlanta*, TEAMS TBA, 12 p.m., ABC
BOLD = SWAC
* = Neutral location
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