Bengals rookie pass rusher Carl Lawson is so passionate, so dedicated, so into football that he’d run over his own mother.
Well, maybe not his own mother. But he has left his own father bloodied and battered at least twice and the first happened when he was in junior high and they were fooling with pass rush and Dad challenged him to get by.
“I crumpled,” says the older Carl Lawson, who’s not exactly a wallflower as an athletic trainer and running back on the 1990 Georgia Tech national champions. “We weren’t wearing pads so I’m thinking he’s going to try to get by me with a speed rush.