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"Coming out undrafted from a small school, a lot of people counted me out," Bell recalled.
"I think he's a great inspiration,Jerseys NFL Wholesale," Caldwell said.
When Modkins was in personnel meetings, however, he praised Bell for his intangibles.
"I would say, 'There's this kid from Wayne State, he has something. I don't know what it is,'" Modkins recalled saying back then. "I had a coach that used to tell me, 'It's not about where you're from, it's where you're going and what you do when you get there.'"
DETROIT (AP) — Joique Bell's winding path to the NFL began at Wayne State, where he starred on a small stage in the shadow of Detroit's skyline.
Four years later, he has established himself as player valued enough to get a $9.3 million, three-year contract from the Detroit Lions.
No one, though, in the league was impressed enough to draft him.
Lions coach Jim Caldwell was with the Colts when Bell played five games for the franchise in 2010,Cheap Jerseys NFL China, and has witnessed him add new dimensions to his frame and game.
Lions running backs coach Curtis Modkins, who was an assistant in Buffalo when Bell was trying to break in the league, said that Lynch, Jackson and Spiller were part of the NFL's most talented back field the last 10 years.
Bell won the Harlon Hill Trophy as the NCAA Division II Player of the Year in 2009 after rushing for 2,084 yards and 29 touchdowns.
The 5-foot-11, 229-pound Bell, who is from Benton Harbor, Michigan,Jerseys Wholesale, played in every game the previous two seasons for the Lions. He combined for nearly 900 yards of offense in 2012 and almost 1,200 yards on the ground and through the air last year
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"It means everything to me to see what my son has done from where he comes from," Gaddy said. "When he's happy, I'm happy."
The Lions drew 8,935 people to watch them practice under the lights after a rain storm rolled through the area.
The beginning of Bell's career in the league was forgettable, bouncing around with Buffalo, Philadelphia, Indianapolis and New Orleans over his first two years. He was signed by the Eagles off the Bills' practice squad in 2010, where he understandably struggled to make a roster that included running backs Marshawn Lynch, Fred Jackson and C.J. Spiller.
Bell was back on his college field Wednesday night with his NFL teammates for a public practice.
Bell was pretty popular presence at Wayne State — drawing cheers before practice and signing autographs after it — and walked away from the field holding hands with perhaps his biggest fan, Althea Gaddy.
"Joique can dish it out a little bit, too,Hockey Jerseys 2018 Cheap," Caldwell said. "He's big and strong. He's a bit bigger than he was when we had him in terms of weight and power and size. He's really matured."
"It definitely started here,Cheap Adidas NHL Jerseys," he said. "I'm definitely home. ... This is a day I'll never forget."
