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Not long before he died, David Nesheim taught his son how to snap a football. The way Daniel Te’o-Nesheim looks at it now, that long-ago lesson from his father led to his playing defensive end for the Eagles. “The last sporting thing we did together was to go out in the backyard and he taught me how to hike the ball and he taught me how to long-snap,” Te’o-Nesheim said Thursday after another workout for rookies and selected veterans. According to Te’o-Nesheim, if he hadn’t followed his father into their Seattle backyard as a 12-year old for snapping instructions, he may have never chosen to play center on his first football team. And if he hadn’t told his high school coach – after quitting …

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A long-ago snap got Eagles rookie started

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