Unable to post test scores good enough to accept a Division I offer, Broncos rookie running back Devontae Jackson had a different type of freshman year in 2014.
From 10 a.m.-1 a.m., he worked at a restaurant in Georgia. He wasn’t in school and wasn’t playing football, but refused to drown himself in self-pity.
“It was tough,” Jackson said earlier this spring. “But every time I got off from work, I would go straight to the weight room and train. I just made sure I continued to work while I wasn’t able to be on the field.