Shortly after Tarik Cohen arrived at North Carolina A&T, the only school to offer him a scholarship out of Bunn (N.C.) High School, he had to check something out.
“When I got to A&T,” he told me after Wednesday’s practice, “I started researching everyone who went to the NFL from historically black colleges, the last person who went. I did a whole lot of research looking at my chances of getting to the NFL.”
So no, Cohen, the Bears rookie running back, doesn’t lack for confidence and yes, he knew a little something about Walter Payton before getting drafted in the fourth round by the Bears this spring.