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By Loren Casuto
BoltTalk Staff Writer

Walking through San Diego State on a midsummer day, you don’t expect to hear the crack of pads and the whoops of players. Summer is more about baseball and the beach in San Diego then it is about football, at least until training camp starts for the Chargers. But tucked behind Tony Gwynn stadium, onlookers would be surprised to see a former San Diego Chargers superstar working with the young men hoping to be the future superstars of college and the NFL.

From June 29th until July 2nd, San Diego State University played host to dozens of youth football players ranging in age from seven to eighteen as the Lorenzo Neal football camp took place. The future football players immersed themselves in football fundamentals and drills taught by coaches from throughout North America and under the watchful eye of numerous past and present NFL players. The spirits were high as the players scrimmaged, practiced drills in entire units or in just position groups. And it was the drills and the focus on fundamentals that was the basis of the entire football camp.

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