Sam Salz’s first taste of NCAA Division I football came during a kickoff — known in football as a “special teams” play. For most football players, kickoffs are in fact routine. But if anything about the play was special, it was Salz’s presence on the field. The 5-foot-6, 160-pound wide receiver for Texas A&M is not only Jewish — itself a rarity in the ranks of college football — but is believed to be the only Orthodox athlete on a DI team.