MARYSVILLE, Ohio – Gabe Powers is only 2 years old, barely even old enough to walk across his parents’ living room consistently without falling down.
But that’s not stopping him from sprinting onto the Xenia High School practice field to do some drillwork at linebacker.
When your football-lifer father, Mike, is a high school coach whose team is knee deep in August two-a-days, sometimes the only time Gabe will see his dad during the day is when his mom, Erin, brings him to the Buccaneers’ practices.
Gabe might be the youngest out here, but the toddler is not alone in being a young kid learning the position that will define his future in the sport.