The invitation had come out of the blue, really – at least for me – but Adrian Wilson pulled me aside in the locker room on this offseason day and asked if I would want to go back to High Point, North Carolina, later in the summer. Wilson was going to have his high school jersey retired, and wanted to know if I wanted to chronicle it.
It was a chance to see Wilson in his hometown. But it became more than that.
Sunday, Wilson is going into the Cardinals Ring of Honor. It’s the path the former Pro Bowl safety chose to take early in his career with the team.