FOXBOROUGH – Ashton Grant wanted to be in the NFL, but as a player.

A Division II standout at Assumption University, Grant set school records for career receiving yards (3,204), career touchdown receptions (36), and single-season touchdown receptions (13).

After college, he earned a rookie minicamp invite with the Chicago Bears and then the Kansas City Chiefs in 2018. In both experiences, Grant felt let down. A small school prospect, he didn’t receive many reps in the practices he attended.

That ultimately led him to coaching at Holy Cross as a quality control coach in 2019. That year, his mother asked him what his goals were now that playing in the NFL was behind him. She mentioned coaching in the NFL. Grant thought that wouldn’t happen.

Little did he know, he’d be working with the

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