Eleven months ago Jourdan Lewis and Desmond King stood shoulder to shoulder in a ballroom in Connecticut. They wore black bowties around their neck and white roses pinned to tuxedo jackets. They were a long way from McCabe Park, the grassy field on Detroit’s Westside where they first met.
Lewis and King, seniors at Michigan and Iowa this fall, were in New England last winter to formally collect their awards for the Walter Camp All-America team. They are two of the country’s top cornerbacks, both semifinalists this season for the Jim Thorpe Award, which King won a year ago.