CINCINNATI -- When Bengals defensive end Carl Lawson first laid eyes on Rachel Dincoff at an Auburn Fellowship of Christian Athletes meeting five years ago, he turned to teammate Peyton Barber and couldn’t stop talking about the pretty girl across the room.
He had no idea that, on the other side, she was nudging her friend and calling “dibs” on the cute freshman football player who had just walked in the door.
Nor did any of them know how far they would come in the years since.
Barber, Lawson’s best friend since high school, is now a running back for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.