Who aspires to be a father at 17? No one with a lick of sense, that’s for sure.
Certainly not Donnel Pumphrey. Having a kid three months into his senior year of high school wasn’t part of his grand plan.
A Division I scholarship was. A big-time college football career was. And if everything broke just right, maybe, just maybe, even a shot at the NFL.
But when he found out in February 2012 that his girlfriend was pregnant, he feared his grand plan might’ve just gone down in flames. Didn’t matter if it had, though.