Super Bowl XLIV: New Orleans' Scott Fujita Continues To Lead A Disney Life

Sunday, February 07 2010

Just for the record, Scott Fujita is NOT Asian American. Or an Asian of any other kind, either.

Though he now stands at 6-5 and round about 250 and towers over them, Scott was adopted by the Fujita family when he was quite young. And unlike the now-famous story of Michael Oher, he certainly did not appear headed to the NFL, entering high school at 5-7, 120 pounds.

"I was kind of a late bloomer in high school and went straight up like a bean pole,” Fujita told me nine years ago when we met for the first time.

Indeed, Fujita finished high school standing at 6-4, 200 pounds. A two-sport star, he made 118 tackles, four sacks and five interceptions that season...and won a slam dunk contest.

Despite this, he had nary a Division I offer. Turning his back on the Division III schools where he was highly recruited, Fujita chose to walk on at Cal. Though this was before the good years of Jeff Tedford, being a student-athlete at Cal-Berkeley is not easy. The...
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