From scaffolder to the Super Bowl: How 25-year-old Australian Jordan Mailata became an NFL star
His mantra was “don’t have a plan … fall forward, don’t fall backwards.” Turns out Jordan Mailata fell on his feet, becoming one of the NFL’s best starting left tackles and a vital cog in the Philadelphia Eagles’ run to the Super Bowl. The hulking Australian admitted that if he’d been told what his future might hold back when he was doing odd jobs to pay the bills in between playing rugby – including scaffolding, carpentry and demolition to name a few – he would’ve laughed at the notion.
Their arduous training program – 12 hours a day, seven days a week – was filmed for the NFL Network’s show “Undrafted,” which previously followed Washington Commanders defensive end Efe Obada. Despite his inexperience, the Eagles decided to take a punt on Mailata in the seventh round of the 2018 draft, a year after the team won their first Super Bowl title. He became only the second player to be drafted with no American high school or college experience after Moritz Böhringer.
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