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Will Alabama’s Eddie Lacy Make It Back to the Big Time?

By: Larry Burton

When you come from a trailer to the NFL it’s kind of hard to be knocked back down the ladder, but that’s what’s happening to a standout college player and one time NFL top running back, still young enough to just be hitting his prime.

When Eddie Lacy came to Alabama, he had never experienced a nutrition regiment, a weight lifting / body building regiment or had people that cared about mental, physical or educational development. “The first year I was here, I thought I was going to die. I had never really worked out and just relied on the size and strength I already had to get by and that worked in high school, but not here.