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When the NFL calls, it’s hard to say no.

Adam Zaruba, Canadian rugby sevens star, is off to try out with the Philadelphia Eagles on Sunday.

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The 26-year-old North Vancouver giant admits it’s all about unfinished business.

He played football in high school at Carson Graham and then was recruited to play at SFU but to put it in his words, “it didn’t work out.” He redshirted for a year for the Clan, didn’t play for his second, was ineligible for his third.

Eventually he found his way to rugby, was quickly spotted by the rugby sevens staff at Rugby Canada as a prospect and by 2014 was a full-time member of the national squad.

Fast-forward three years, and he’s made a name for himself on the international rugby stage. Now it’s time for a new big stage.

“It will be a really awesome thing for me as an athlete,” he said before flying out to Philadelphia on Friday.

“The window here is very small.”

After his World Rugby Sevens Series season came to an end in May, Zaruba got a call from a South African rugby agent who was developing contacts in the NFL.