Lavel Dumont still isn't quite sure what compelled him to do it.
The University of Toledo football player was driving to campus from his apartment last summer when he saw a boy throwing a football by himself in his front yard. He had seen him doing this before. Sometimes the boy would throw the ball as high as he could and then catch it. Sometimes he would throw at orange cones that were set up on the lawn. Sometimes he would simply throw the ball as far as he could and then retrieve it. Each time he saw this, Lavel became more intrigued.