Each player on the field is UTEP's spring football game aims to make the transition from playing for the Miners to competing in the NFL.
They won’t have to search far to find someone who exemplified that objective. Currently, in the NFL. offensive lineman Will Hernandez and recently retired safety Quintin Demps They will return to the Sun Bowl sidelines as coaches for UTEP when they lead the team during the April 12 Orange versus Blue Spring Game.
Thomas Howard, UTEP’s third all-time leading rusher, will help Demps coach from the sidelines with the Blue team, whereas newly appointed El Paso Mayor Renard Johnson will support Hernandez in guiding the Orange squad.
UTEP also confirmed New York Giants Defensive end and former UTEP player Roy Robertson-Harris will attend the game.
Hernandez is presently without a team after playing as a starting guard for the past three years. Arizona Cardinals He experienced the peak of his seven-year professional journey during the previous season but then encountered a season-ending knee injury.
He often goes back to El Paso, with his most recent visit being last summer, to run a football camp. He will be a co-host at the camp. This past summer in El Paso, Hernandez spent time with Aaron and Alvin Jones. He had been a standout player for UTEP throughout the previous ten years before being selected by the New York Giants as the 34th overall pick in the 2018 NFL Draft.
Demps was selected from UTEP in the fourth round of the 2008 draft and enjoyed a decade-long tenure in the NFL with teams such as the Philadelphia Eagles, Houston Texans (twice), Chicago Bears, Kansas City Chiefs, and New York Giants before hanging up his cleats following the 2017 season. Currently, he serves as the head coach for Converse Judson High School located near San Antonio.
The spring game starts at 11 a.m. with tickets costing $5.
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The article initially appeared on El Paso Times: Previous UTEP Players Will Hernandez and Quintin Demps Return for Coaches Role at Spring Football Game
