{"id":227271,"date":"2026-05-11T15:17:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T15:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/227271\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T15:17:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T15:17:07","slug":"former-holy-cross-student-devin-grant-out-to-prove-new-york-is-a-football-city-after-signing-with-la-chargers-qns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/227271\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Holy Cross student Devin Grant out to prove New York is a football city after signing with LA Chargers \u2013 QNS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Devin Grant, a former Holy Cross High School student who signed with the LA Chargers as an undrafted free agent last month, is out to prove that New York City is not just a basketball city but also a haven for football.<\/p>\n<p>Grant, a safety who graduated from Holy Cross in 2022, signed with the Chargers at the end of April after receiving offers from the San Francisco 49ers and the Seattle Seahawks, according to reports.<\/p>\n<p>The move was a special one for Grant, allowing him to follow in the footsteps of his uncle Dean Marlowe \u2013 another Holy Cross alumni who enjoyed a nine-year career in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">NFL<\/a> before retiring at the Chargers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s honestly a blessing (to follow in my uncle\u2019s footsteps),\u201d Grant said. \u201cWho gets to start their career where their uncle finished?\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>Grant played varsity football as a sophomore at Holy Cross and credited varsity coach Tim Smith for his development into a player who played football the \u201cright way.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was great having him in my corner, having watched him develop my uncle,\u201d Grant said. \u201cHe showed me how to play football the right way. Not even just on the field, but off the field. He showed me how to become a better man\u2026 It just shaped me to grind hard and never take a moment for granted.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Grant, who grew up in Queens, is now out to prove that the borough \u2013 and New York City \u2013 is not just a basketball town.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re looked at as a basketball city,\u201d Grant said. \u201cI\u2019m here to show them that New York\u2019s in the building, that we got dogs. Don\u2019t forget about us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After leaving Holy Cross in 2022, Grant accepted an offer to play football at the University of Buffalo before transferring to Syracuse University two years later. He is now looking forward to playing in the LA sunshine after playing almost all of his football in the cold winters of the northeast.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m definitely enjoying the nice weather because I\u2019m tired of the snow,\u201d he said.\n<\/p>\n<p>He has also set his sights on earning a roster spot at the Chargers ahead of the upcoming NFL season.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just want to get better each and every day and be the best version of myself,\u201d Grant said. \u201cIt\u2019s definitely a little different (than college). It\u2019s a little bit higher paced\u2026 but nothing that I can\u2019t handle. Nothing I\u2019m not ready for.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/qns.com\/2026\/04\/devin-grant-la-chargers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">For Smith<\/a>, who has kept in touch with Grant since he departed Holy Cross for years ago, it is no surprise that his former student has made it to the NFL.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDevin played on the varsity football team from sophomore year onward,\u201d Smith said. \u201cHe was a captain in his senior year and had extremely high football IQ. He was extremely talented and it always felt like he had the ability to play high in college football and possibly in the NFL. So this really doesn\u2019t come as a surprise.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHoly Cross has never been the type of football program that had sophomores on varsity,\u201d Smith continued. \u201cSo for him to be a starter and a two-way starter as a sophomore of varsity, that\u2019s a big accomplishment in itself.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Devin Grant, a former Holy Cross High School student who signed with the LA Chargers as an undrafted&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":215709,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[85105,89279,17113,85107,9,24,55,54,22,56,85108],"class_list":["post-227271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-devin-grant","tag-devin-grant-la-charger","tag-holy-cross","tag-la-chargers","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-nfl","tag-ny","tag-tim-smith"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}