Merriam-Webster defines adversity as a state or instance of serious or continued difficulty or misfortune. And while everyone has their metaphorical hurdles, former New Orleans Saints first round draft choice Alex Molden has cleared some tough ones. Similar adversity with other people has ruined lives, but American novelist James Lane Allen said it best when he said, “Adversity does not build character, it reveals it.”
Life of a Saint: Alex Molden
Athletically, Alex Molden figured out that he was gifted at an early age. But that first eye-opening moment didn’t happen on a football field in his native Detroit, but rather a track meet in at an Army base in Germany.