You know you can ball. You know you belong. You’ve dreamed that NFL dream since you were 8 years old playing for the Lynvet Cardinals and growing up in Springfield Gardens rooting for the Giants.
But then the cruel football gods kneecap you. Not once, but twice.
What a long and often dark and lonely road it was, 14 months without the game you love. But you never gave up. You wrote this uplifting story of perseverance.
And now you’re a New York Jets cornerback, big and physical and smart and fast enough and prideful and driven, and the doubters who never believed you’d make it back?