There was something different about Joshua Perry almost from the start, something that told his father he might be special some day.
That he might become an athlete? That, too.
“Even as an infant and a toddler he was exceptionally muscular,” Jim Perry said of his second son, now a senior linebacker at Ohio State. “And he was very, very athletic, mobile, very coordinated and aggressive — very aggressive.”
Plus, he was “competitive from the start,” his father said, with Joshua’s inspiration coming from trying to keep up with his older brother, Wes.
“Anything Wes did, Joshua wanted to do better,” Jim Perry said, and he wasn’t referring just to sports.