As Felecia Sheard watches Wayne Gallman in a Clemson uniform, she sees the little dervish who tested her patience, not a 210-pound college running back beginning to scratch the surface of his potential.
“Wayne gave me a run for my money,” said Sheard of her son, the lead back for 10th-ranked Clemson.
She remembers the call from a sitter, her cousin, worried that 3-year-old Wayne would hurt himself because he purposely and repeatedly rolled out of bed; that when he played with his cousin, Wayne liked to run into the walls.
Or after wearing out the adult men at reunion picnics, they would plead with her, “Felecia, you need to take Wayne home.