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Arrowheadlines: The incredible road traveled for Chiefs cornerback L’Jarius Sneed

His family legacy is prison. KC Chiefs’ L’Jarius Sneed bears a burden to break a curse | Kansas City Star

But there’s something else you should know about the Sneeds. Something of which most everyone back in Minden, Louisiana, is already well aware.

In a town of 12,000, they carry a legacy much different than football. They are a family of generational imprisonment. A family with murder convictions, drug arrests and life sentences in their past and present. A 24-year-old’s thriving football career has freed them from that history, they believe, but it’s not been enough to release the burden from its actual savior.