GREEN BAY – The names of his two angels rest on Emanuel Byrd’s chest and shoulders, a living reminder of the women responsible for guiding the Packers’ first-year tight end to this point in life.
The first, fittingly close to Byrd’s heart, honors his mother, Peggy Joyce Byrd, a single mother of three who worked the night shift at Proctor & Gamble in Albany, Ga., in hopes of providing her children with a better life.
The second, on Byrd’s back, is a tribute to his aunt, Claudia Marshall, who took in her sister’s children and raised them as her own after Peggy passed away on Jan.