Tre’Vour Simms is one mountain of a man.
At 6 feet 5 and 338 pounds, the East St. Louis High School graduate and sophomore offensive lineman at the University of Missouri is capable of moving similarly large men with brute force and technique that might one day lead to a career in the NFL.
But for Simms, 20, life has always been about taking one step at a time.
As a portly and uncoordinated boy, Simms was laughed at as he learned how to play football. As a high school star, temptations and danger were part of his everyday existence as he grew up on 29th Street.