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August 23, 2016 | Athletic Communications

Nearly Two Dozen Huskies Now in NFL Training Camps

As UConn Football prepares for its season, Huskies are all around the pros.

February 3, 2016; San Jose, CA, USA; Carolina Panthers Defensive back and UConn graduate Robert McClain addresses the media during a press conference prior to Super Bowl 50 at San Jose Convention Center. (Kyle Terada-USA TODAY Sports)

As UConn Football prepares for its season, Huskies are all around the pros. Here former Husky Robert McClain is pictured at a Super Bowl press conference this past February. (Kyle Terada-USA TODAY Sports)

As the 2016 UConn football team continues to prepare for its season, training camps around the National Football League are in full swing with practice and preseason games.

UConn is well represented in the NFL this summer, with 22 former Huskies in camps. The full listing of all the Huskies in NFL camps.

The veteran of the group is Detroit Lions quarterback Dan Orlovsky, the pride of Shelton, Conn. Orlovsky led UConn to its first-ever bowl game – a win in the 2004 Motor City Bowl – and originally played for the Lions from 2005-2008, with stops at Houston (2009-10), Indianapolis (2011), and Tampa Bay (2012-13) before coming back to Detroit in 2014.

Robert McClain, pictured above at a Super Bowl 50 press conference last February, is once again with the Carolina Panthers, as the defensive back prepares for his seventh NFL season. McClain originally played for Carolina in 2010 and, after stops at Jacksonville (2011) and Atlanta (2012-14), he was picked up by the Panthers again late last season as part of their run to Super Bowl 50.

Two members of last year’s UConn team that played in the St. Petersburg Bowl are looking to make NFL teams as undrafted free agents – defensive back Andrew Adams with the New York Giants and defensive lineman Kenton Adeyemi with the Cleveland Browns.