Sometimes, Katisha Rose looks at her son and still can’t believe the resemblance to his father, Al Blades Sr., the former Miami Hurricanes star safety who died in a car crash in 2003 after celebrating his 26th birthday — the car struck a bridge abutment and plunged into a Miami-Dade canal, where Al Blades Sr. and driver Martel Johnson drowned.
Al Blades Jr. was 3.
“A lot of people in my family say my father lives through me because I’m the same exact person,” said Blades Jr., a Fort Lauderdale St. Thomas Aquinas cornerback, honor-roll student and four-star prospect who signed with Miami on Dec.