They are academic advisers and nurses and commercial real estate brokers. They teach math and guide quail hunts and run logging companies.
But about a decade ago, they played high school football in Florida, where they had the privilege of getting stiff-armed, trampled and outraced by Derrick Henry, who continued to treat tacklers as minor nuisances at the University of Alabama and with the Tennessee Titans.
As a teenager, Henry was only slightly smaller than his listed N.F.L. dimensions (6-foot-3, 247 pounds), and finished his playing days at Yulee High, north of Jacksonville, with 12,124 rushing yards, the national record.