There’s no college football program quite like that NFL factory based in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Those who make it out of that cutthroat environment have an uncommon bond.
There seems to be an unspoken code that lasts into their pro careers, which certainly has been the case for Bears safeties Eddie Jackson and Ha Ha Clinton-Dix. It doesn’t matter that they’re veterans and multimillionaires. There’s a higher standard to which they hold each other, adamant that they won’t disappoint the place that forged them.
“We know the program we came from and what the expectations are for us,” Clinton-Dix said.