After his first season in the NFL, Russell Shepard returned to his Houston hometown and opened a business with his dad that provides dump trucks for hauling material to construction sites.
It was an appropriate venture for Shepard, the Carolina Panthers’ new receiver/special teams contributor whose career has been more about grit than glitz.
“I take pride in dirt, sand and gravel,” Shepard said shortly into his introductory press conference at Bank of America Stadium last week. “Made a lot of money off it.”
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Shepard made a good bit of money in his first go-round through free agency.