Quarterback Hoppy Featured on D3Football.com
Sophomore quarterback Kyle Hoppy's road to starting quarterback at Buffalo State is featured in this week's Around the Region collumn on D3Football.com.
Kyle Hoppy's first love was baseball.
As a kid growing up in Orchard Park, N.Y. -- a town famous for being home to the NFL's Buffalo Bills -- Hoppy would spend days in the backyard catching, throwing and hitting a baseball, and nights dreaming of the same.
Even when football came into his life and carved out a soft spot in his sports heart, he couldn't shake the idea of playing baseball at the highest level.
So after the Baltimore Orioles selected him in the 28th round of the 2009 draft, Hoppy ultimately passed on opportunities to enroll in college and play football, including FCS-level Bucknell, and signed to play baseball professionally.
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