The journey of an under the radar prospect to the NFL is rarely ever a red carpet ride---and for those who continually dismiss unknown undrafted free agents as JAG (“just a guy”) or a “camp body”---you might want to look twice before you send out your version of The Turk.
Well, it just so happens that the Cardinals’ 2nd year safety Jonathan Owens of Western Missouri, is not your average “JO.”
”J.O.”, as his friends and teammates call him, grew up in St. Louis, Missouri, just five minutes from Ferguson, where Michael Brown was shot and killed and the ensuing riots looked like what Owens described as “a war zone.