Seeing Vince Wilfork emerge as this year’s New England Patriots Hall of Fame inductee is a fitting end to quite a story for the former defensive tackle.
Wilfork, who spent 11 seasons with the team, overcame a lot on his way to the NFL. His story is definitely a good one, and it goes all the way back to the day he was drafted.
The former standout from Miami was just a college player with a young family and was coming off of losing both his parents just two years prior to when he was drafted, with his father passing away from Kidney disease on June 5, 2002, one day before his mother’s birthday.