In the first post of our series on ‘Alabama football players we love’ – we focused on Hootie Jones and the battle he and his mother wage against her serious illness.
This post is also about adversity, physical pain and a need to overcome. Almost everyone knows about the gruesome injury Tyrone Prothro had in 2005. We choose to not attach any photos or video.
Over more than a decade, Prothro had 12 surgeries. He is able to function normally but will never fully recover from his injury.
Prothro’s dream was to play football professionally.