Kevin Mawae spent his NFL career clearing a path for numerous running backs. Saturday night, he entered the Pro Football Hall of Fame by giving a speech that acknowledged those who cleared his path to immortality.
Mawae, who played 16 seasons — eight of them with the Jets — and 241 games in the NFL, brought himself and both of his parents to tears during his 27-minute speech, in which he also remembered his brother, John, who was killed in a 1996 automobile accident in Louisiana.
He said he never betrayed the lessons he learned when he first began playing football — flag football, no less.