More military academy football players could go pro under proposed rule

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The seniors playing in this weekend’s Army-Navy football game all know where they are headed after graduation.

Navy’s star quarterback, Blake Horvath, will be off to Naval flight school in Florida. His favorite receiver, Eli Heidenreich, will spend a year training as a Marine Corps ground officer.

Army linebacker Kalib Fortner, the team’s defensive captain who as a sophomore was named the 2023 Army-Navy game MVP, is headed to the infantry, one of eight Army senior cadets who will serve in that branch, the same number who will train in artillery.

But a law working its way through Congress would tweak current rules for academy athletes to expand the opportunity among those players and their classmates to defer their service to chase careers in professional sports, from the National Football League to women’s rugby.

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