He woke up at 5:30 a.m. for work at 14 years old.
He would carpool with St. Peter's Prep head coach Rich Hansen to Jersey City every single day, and when he returned home after football practice around 8 p.m., he would work with his dad repairing his Old Bridge home until the wee hours of the morning.
Then 5:30 a.m. would come... and he'd do it all over again.
He was forced to become a man as a young boy.
Meet Minkah Fitzpatrick.
Well before he helped bring a state title to St.