Typically the NFL draft is a drudge-fest, overhyped and microanalyzed.
Last spring drudgery took a holiday, if only for a couple of minutes after the Raiders selected running back Josh Jacobs.
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“You come from humble beginnings,” Deion Sanders told Jacobs. “Not the way you would have wanted to grow up. But look at you now. Can you tell me what your father means to you?”
“He means everything to me, man,” Jacobs said. “I owe him everything.”
Fast forward to Monday when Jacobs’ father Marty was informed he now owed nothing. His son had purchased a house for his father in Oklahoma.