When 7-year-old Kyle Prater came home from football practice one day and told his parents he wanted to quit football, his dad had a simple but resonant message for him: "If you quit now, you'll be quitting for the rest of your life." Those words defined his journey from five-star recruit to "bust" to, potentially, the NFL.
Johnny Prater is one of those guys who loves to read. He reads everything. He has to be in the loop. He craves information, and he knows where he can get it.
And that's why a few years ago, Johnny Prater was hurt.