Rachaad White—like so many prospects in this year’s draft—took an incredible journey to the NFL. His story, like those of many others, deserves proper respect. ConorOrr on the Arizona State running back who took a chance just to have a chance
But it also shined a light on how numb we’ve become to the absolutely incredible and beyond heroic life journeys of so many NFL prospects and current players. When personal hardship is distilled and poured down our throats at mach speed during a televised event with wanton disregard for context and the proper breathing room someone’s life story commands, we begin to lose our grip on how amazing each and every person is on an individual level.
During a time when so many of us barely possess the maturity to balance a checkbook, White was living in unfurnished apartments, managing food stamps, working at a recycling plant or, to earn extra cash—completely alone, more than a thousand miles from where he grew up—using a gig-working app called PeopleReadyHe said he would wake up at 4 a.m. on the weekends during the offseason and drag himself to a Bob’s Furniture Warehouse and assemble and load beds for hours at a time.
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