You can come out of nowhere and beat the odds and realize your NFL dream. You can be an undersized free-agent kid from Hofstra like Wayne Chrebet and become one of the most popular Jets, or you can be a free-agent kid from Paterson, N.J. and UMass like Victor Cruz and become one of the most popular Giants.
Or you can be Roger Lewis Jr., on the verge of catching a dream that never died in his heart and mind.
“The very low point,” Lewis said Thursday, “was when I was sitting out, and I saw my friends playing college football, it hurt me.