What do you do when your father is sent back to Jamaica by the U.S. government when you’re four-years old? How about when you’re 16 and your older brother is sentenced to 29 years in prison? How do you help your mom working two jobs to support three boys?
These are all questions to which Lerentee McCray had to find answers. The Bills linebacker saw his family fractured at an early age by circumstance and then later by his brother’s poor decisions. For most it might turn one bitter, angry, resentful. McCray, at a young age, stepped forward to fill a void for his mother and brothers.