Rarely do professional athletes, particularity in the NFL, get to play for their hometown team. Despite dreams of wearing their favorite team’s jersey they had as a child, the NFL Draft and the business side of football often keep those childhood fantasies at bay.
For former Green Bay Packers offensive guard T.J. Lang, it was a Detroit Lions‘ Scott Mitchell jersey. Born in Royal Oak, Michigan, Lang attended high school in White Oak before transferring an hour east to Birmingham.
Lang went to college at Eastern Michigan before being selected in the fourth round of the 2009 NFL Draft by the Lions’ divisional foe, the Packers.