When Chase Winovich spoke to the Buchtel football team last month, he urged the players to view the new synthetic turf field the Browns had donated to the Akron school as a symbol of the belief the community has in them and an opportunity.
Winovich explained his eighth-grade guidance counselor didn't believe in his NFL dream and suggested he reconsider his career goal.
“It was something I never forgot because every step of the way everybody told me what I couldn't do, what I couldn't become,” Winovich said during his speech, “and every step of the way, I used that as an opportunity to show them what I could be, what I could do.