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Chargers safety Jahleel Addae keeps hitting back at teams that passed on him in draft

COSTA MESA, Calif. _ The four-year, $22 million contract that he signed in March provided financial security for Jahleel Addae, the hard-hitting strong safety who will begin his fifth NFL season when the Los Angeles Chargers play the Denver Broncos at Sports Authority Field on Monday night.

It did nothing to douse Addae's burning desire to jab league executives and scouts who underestimated him when he was an undersized defensive back coming out of an unheralded college (Central Michigan) in 2013.

"I always feel like I have something to prove,

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