It wasn’t too long ago that Jason Brown had a multimillion-dollar contract to play as a center in the NFL.
So some might find it odd that the North Carolina native and former UNC standout had 40,000 pounds of sweet potatoes dumped on the Chapel Hill campus, as tweets from the university showed Saturday morning.
Wow — that’s a lot of yams pic.twitter.com/K9vDvUA94y
— UNC-Chapel Hill (@UNC) February 10, 2018
The explanation: Brown walked away from professional football in 2012 because he wanted to feed the hungry. He bought a thousand-acre farm near Louisburg, and in 2014 his First Fruits Farm made its first donation of sweet potatoes – giving away the entire crop to area food pantries and shelters.