BONNE TERRE, MO. • They ran around huge truck tires, hopped over tackling dummies, fell on fumbles, caught passes — just about everything you’d expect at a youth football camp.
The guest instructors, five of them at least, were members of the Washington Redskins, which seemed strange here in the middle of the Missouri Lead Belt on the day before Mother’s Day. Until, that is, you looked at the T-shirts worn by the 130 campers who ranged in age from third grade through eighth grade:
“Create Your Own Destiny. Will Compton Football Camp.”
Undrafted out of Nebraska in 2013, Compton started most of the past two seasons at middle linebacker for Washington.