Demerick Gary was traipsing through another high school gym, walking out of a different coach’s office from an interview, when he got the call he was coming home.
He was tired. Tired from the last four months of fighting for a call from the NFL, fighting to put food on the table, fighting for a stable job in any place he could think of.
For SMU’s former defensive line standout, the last 150 days have been about as far away from what he could have predicted back in March.