Kamaehu Richards was well on his way to becoming a junior college football success story.
His second season with the Pima Aztecs was almost in the books, his grades were in order and he had multiple scholarship offers in hand thanks to his versatility and veracity on the defensive line.
Then his Honokaa-boy-done-good tale almost was derailed on a simple pitch play. Late during the 2016 season, Richards went to make a tackle, but as bad luck would have it so did a Pima safety, who a essentially ended up tackling Richards’ knee.
He lay on the field as he was attended to by the team’s medical personnel, but one didn’t need to be doctor to see his knee was bending in directions it shouldn’t.