Sunday’s mass shooting in El Paso, Tx. that has thus far left 22 people dead hit New York Giants guard Will Hernandez hard. No one in Hernandez’s family was injured, but Hernandez played his college football at the University of Texas El-Paso (UTEP) and maintains close ties to the community.
“Even though I’m here in New York, I quickly sent out prayers, my love out to the city. That city is really important to me,” Hernandez said on Monday. “I basically grew up there, I got there when I was 17 years old, left, and I was there for five or six years.