Steelers Depot · Jul 13, 2018
Roosevelt Nix Using Doubt To Fuel Him
Roosevelt Nix is one of the NFL’s best stories. He’s entirely self-made. A light recruit out of high school, winding up at Kent State, an afterthought of Division One football. He excelled there along the defensive line but that lack of pedigree and more importantly, lack of size, turned him into a UDFA for the NFL.
Atlanta chewed him up and spit him out, infamously highlighted as the first play released the year the Falcons appeared on Hard Knocks. Pittsburgh turned him into a linebacker, then back into a fullback, and he busted his butt to make the team out of camp, become the starter, and last year, a Pro Bowler.
Talk about climbing the mountain.
