6’2″ 220 lbs. 7th grader Jordan Steele is an elite football player from Evarts, a town located deep in Harlan County. He was recently selected to represent Kentucky in the Football University Youth All-American Bowl in San Antonio, Texas. As earlier reported on Vaught’s Views, Jordan’s mother Astria Howard started a GoFundMe account to help her son get to San Antonio, as travel, housing, meals, and miscellaneous expenses are not covered.
Jordan’s father was a Kentucky National Guard soldier. Following a deployment to Iraq in 2005, Shane Howard suffered from post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and passed away on October 1, 2007.