He raced fluidly across his field of dreams with the effortless moves of a natural athlete.
For Eli Manning, for Daniel Jones, for Saquon Barkley, for every other New York Giant, this was another football day in May, another OTA.
For the kid wearing Ballentine in white letters above 25 on his blue jersey, this was much more.
It was his first time on the field for team drills, the next meaningful step toward what one day he hopes to remember as a triumph over tragedy.
Corey Ballentine, cornerback, is not yet ready to meet the media and answer questions about the fateful night his friend and Washburn University teammate Dwane Simmons was shot and killed in Topeka, Kan.