One day, Chris Owens will manage a NFL roster.
For 2022, he just hopes to be part of one.
Owens is embarking on his first season in the pros, an offensive lineman signed by the Pittsburgh Steelers as an UDFA after this year’s draft. His football roots can be traced to New Orleans. Owens’ family went through Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and though their house, unlike so many others, was spared enough by the storm to move back in, the family packed up and moved west to Texas. There, Owens began playing football not in the hopes of making it to the NFL but with the goal of making friends in his new neighborhood.