Ruth Fremson/The New York Times
The New York Times Sports department is revisiting the subjects of some compelling articles from the last year or so. Here is our November 2018 report on a college football player’s battle with depression.
His smile was back, but now it had a 14-karat flash.
As he sat across from me at a Los Angeles taco stand, I could sense an optimistic lightness to Isaiah Woods, the college football player whose battle with mental illness I wrote about last year.
“I feel great,” he said.