![]() In 2019 - 10 years after Huff’s last football experience - he got an opportunity at Saddleback College, a community college in Southern California, alongside his younger brother, Zachary. Huff left the Navy in 2017, and he spent two years working out and preparing his body for a return to football. Like with any good plan, he had to adapt. He planned to use his GI Bill benefits to pay for his education and try out for a Division I football team. In 2014, he began his first of three deployments off the coast of Japan, working in the Navy’s version of the fire department on the flight deck.Īfter seeing former teammates and friends playing college football, Huff set his mind on doing the same. Huff started boot camp a few weeks after high school graduation in 2013 and Navy A School - “jobs school,” Huff described it - soon after. He opted to enlist in the Navy, following the footsteps of his father, who served in the Marines and, after 9/11, in the Army National Guard, including a tour in Iraq. He “barely graduated” high school and left himself with limited college options. ![]() Still, Huff stayed active throughout high school, competing in swimming and water polo, but never returned to the football field. “I quit on the game, I quit on myself and I quit on the team,” he said. He wanted to switch from offensive line to tight end or wide receiver, but his coaches didn’t agree to the change. Huff quit the game after his freshman season of high school in 2009. ![]() ![]() A Rancho Santa Margarita, California, native, Huff went 10 years between his last football game in high school and his first football game in college. ![]()
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