Sad way to start off your combine experience.

Northeastern University is not exactly a professional football factory. Dan Ross and Sean Jones came through there, but after that, nothing till now.
The Huskies went 2-10 last year, and haven't had a winning season in five years. So when a guy from Northeastern even gets an invite to the combine, it's a big deal ... which, unfortunately, makes this even sadder.
Tight end Brian Mandeville waited and waited for his invite to the combine, and finally, it came. Before the invite he ventured out to California to prepare at the Velocity Sports Performance Center. When the time came to show up at the combine and impress everyone, doctors instead told him that he should retire before he even got started.
During a routine exam at the combine doctors noticed something out of the ordinary with Mandeville's heart. A further inspection led combine doctors to the diagnosis that Mandeville may have an issue with one of his heart valves.
How's that for soul-crushing? A guy gets an invite to the combine, which is essentially an audition to make a career out of playing football, and when he gets there, the first thing that happens is that they tell him he has no chance to make a career out of playing football. That's like getting a scholarship to the Juilliard School of Dance right before your advisor takes a baseball bat to your knees.
The issues, according to his agent, aren't life-threatening, but they are career-killing. Even his agent grants that it's unlikely now that Mandeville will have a career in football.
For me being a football player this is a crashing blow but this kid seems like a tough guy to take down in more then one way. He is expected to go and see a doctor in California this upcoming week to see a specialist and he already seems like he will be fighting his way back into the other name of draftable tight ends.