GREEN BAY – There are hard roads to the NFL, and then there’s the one Devante Mays took.
It was littered with pitfalls that could have ended his football career before it really began, rough spots that were overcome by perseverance, faith, an unfailing passion for the game, and a Good Samaritan family that has become as much Mays’ own as the biological one he also loves.
“The NFL was always what drove me,” Mays told packers.com in a one-on-one interview during rookie orientation. “I just never gave up, just kept pushing, kept grinding, and when I made it, everything had paid off.