Cameron Stingily is grateful for a second chance. To prove it to himself. To his idols. Jerome Bettis. Mike Alstott. Le’Veon Bell. And a first chance to provide for his daughter.
He got that second chance not a moment too soon. On the day that he had given up his football dreams, to move on with Life’s Work, the Pittsburgh Steelers called back.
A two-player at Romeoville High School in Illinois, Stingily committed to Northern Illinois as a linebacker. He would ask then-coach Jerry Kill to move to running back but as he tells me in an interview last week, Kill would respond, “you’re a big boy and I need you to hold down the middle.