Every player who makes it to the NFL has their own story about how they got there. Some of them grew up to be football players, even had fathers who were successful NFL players. Marvin Harrison’s son, for example, is in college wearing Gucci cleats and Apple watches on the field. Others have to wonder if they can earn a scholarship as a walk-on just so they can attend the university and see it through for the full ride.
The latter is Pittsburgh Steelers outside linebacker Alex Highsmith’s story. You probably know about his background a little bit, I’m sure, about how he was a walk-on player at Charlotte, a small school that is not exactly an NFL powerhouse.