Demario Davis is hopeful. "I see a light of hope," he says via phone call from New Jersey, one day after visiting lawmakers in Albany, N.Y., and one day before sitting down with fellow players Friday at Harvard. After spending time in the New York state legislature, he feels good about the chances for a criminal justice reform push that would level the playing field for defendants in the state. But he's also optimistic on a larger scale. "We want to be a spark to ignite the rest of the country," Davis says. "People may not have the platform we have or the resources we have, but we all have something .