A lot of players have remarkable stories about how they came to be in the NFL. There are plenty of those who were walk-ons, like Alex Highsmith. You have a player like Chukwuma Okorafor, who hadn’t even been familiar with the sport until he moved to this country as a teenager. And then there is Isaiahh Loudermilk, who grew up in a city so small they had to play 8-on-8 ball.
That background, growing up in Howard, Kansas with a population well south of 1000, made the transition to college football with the Wisconsin Badgers a particularly difficult one.