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abundant bream or bass will always bring about comparable exhilaration that comes with making a productive and defining play that helps his team negotiate victory.
His self-scouting report discloses that while he wasn’t the biggest or the strongest in his developmental years, “I could run pretty fast.” He confirms that athletic alacrity runs in his family. Competition, too. Early on he wanted to outdo his brother Hinton. You know who had the advantage, initially. When little brother grew up a bit, it was a different story. The process, however, brought significant dividends for the development of a young man with a perennial smile.
Now Ladd has the greatest challenge of his young life. Every Charger is bigger and better than most of those he crossed swords with during his time as a Southeastern Conference receiver. Never the cocky, trash talking type, Ladd remains enamored with competition at the highest level, and his confidence brings about a belief and faith that his next chapter in football will be favorable.
Attention to detail is part of his DNA and he relishes time spent in the tape room. He respects the veteran players, saying, “It is amazing. I am a rookie, and I line up with guys who are 10-yearsolder than me.”
His first impression was to graphically understand that pro football is a business. For those players who fared poorly upon arrival, they had cleaned out their lockers before he met them.
He believes his Georgia experience has prepared him to play in the NFL. “The Charger offense is very familiar. We like to run the ball and utilize the play-action passing game, just like it was with the Bulldogs,” he says.
Today he is enjoying football just as he always has, but he knows it will not last forever, which brought up the question of what does he want to do when the reality of life after football comes about? “Maybe coach,” he grins. “Like on the high school level, help young kids.”
Altruism runs deep in his makeup, which means that when he settles down in the community of choice, he will not only be a good neighbor, but he will also extend a helping hand to those in need.
It would be difficult to find a more all-American boy than Ladd Mc-Conkey, the mountain kid who has followed his heart to the next level, but we can rejoice in the belief that the best is yet to come.
