SALT LAKE CITY — Coming into his junior season last year, cornerback Dominique Hatfield was a marked man — a young college football player in trouble with the law. It was the exact thing he tried to avoid by moving from his crime-ridden hometown of Los Angeles, California, to Salt Lake City, Utah.
In a matter of days, Hatfield’s life had changed, and not for the positive, as a coveted scholarship was in jeopardy of being revoked and the sport he loved potentially gone forever. Most pressing, though, was an alleged felony he was accused of committing that could put him behind bars for years.