Tennessee running back Alvin Kamara is still familiar with the long, dark road.
He remembers that it takes a little less than an hour to drive from Wichita Mid-Continent Airport to Hutchinson Community College, how there’s very little between them and how Kansas' K-96 state highway is mostly straight and flat with very few traffic lights—more simply aren’t needed.
“It was weird at first,” he said. “It caught me by surprise.”
Highway 96 was also the crossroads of Kamara's football career, if not his life.
Alabama, the school he initially signed with in 2013, was already in his rearview mirror, along with an arrest.