Cleveland Browns Kaluka Maiava’s First-Hand Experience
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Maui News’ Brad Sherman has the latest on USC linebacker and Baldwin High School (Maui, HI) graduate, Kaluka Maiava.
Kaluka Maiava had been told what to expect at his first workouts with an NFL team. He had heard what a big deal the Cleveland Browns were to their fans. Now he has first-hand experience with both.
Maiava, a 2005 Baldwin High School graduate and second-team Pac-10 linebacker in his senior season at Southern California, was selected by the Browns in the fourth round of April’s NFL draft.
Since then, he’s taken part in a rookie minicamp and a pair of voluntary full-squad camps.
”It’s a lot more to learn in a little bit of time,” Maiava said Saturday. ”There’s a lot of attention to detail. You have to pay attention to everything. I knew that coming into it, and now it’s my responsibility.”
Maiava is one of 19 rookies listed on the Browns roster.
”It’s the NFL, man, it’s a whole new world for me,” he said. ”I’m a rookie, and everything is brand new to me.”
On Saturday, Maiava took part in an event for fans at Crocker Park, a shopping area in Westlake, Ohio.
”It’s always good to get out and see people, and the Cleveland Browns are a real big thing to people here,” he said. ”It’s good to see the kids, and to see everyone, how pumped they are for next year.”
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