Benny Snell adores his mother.
“She is the love of my life,” Kentucky’s running back says of his mom, April. “My mom has been with me every step of the way.”
So keep that in mind when Snell’s high school coach describes “the zone” in which he’s seen the running back get as a player with the ball in his hands and the end zone on his brain.
“When he’s intense the way he is, I’m sure he’d run over his own mother,” former Westerville Central Coach John Magistro said this week.
“I mean that in a nice way because I know his mom and have great love for his mom, but it’s just a zone he gets into.