Detroit Lions’ sixth-round pick James Houston loves to play linebacker. He’d done it for a long time and was good enough in high school to earn a scholarship to play at the University of Florida.
“It’s like poetry when I’m inside,” Houston said in a Jackson State football documentary. “When I’m reading blocks and getting through traffic, and finding the ball carrier, and getting to my goal. It’s something special to me. I feel it in my soul, in my football spirit.”
But after four years at Florida, three as a contributor, Houston had never started a game.