Johnathan Gray has his foot in the NFL door.
After two shoulder surgeries and two Achilles tendon tears, the second of which kept the former University of Texas and record-breaking Aledo running back away from organized football for over a year, Gray will attend the New York Giants’ rookie minicamp for a tryout with the team.
Though he hasn’t signed an undrafted free agent contract with the team, which means the odds are still somewhat long for him to make it to Giants’ training camp, the chance to prove himself is exactly what Gray has been working for, aching for, since he tore his left achilles in January 2016 at a pre-NFL Draft showcase in Bedford.