Two years ago, Rakease Passmore was forced to make a decision that, in retrospect, seems like the no-brainer of no-brainers.
Back then, he was a promising eighth-grade quarterback prospect consistently eluding the defensive pressure and gunning precise passes to his receivers for the Mighty Ducks (Palatka, Fla.).
“I was nice too,” Passmore says. “I loved football. Being from Florida, I thought that was gonna be my lane. I wanted to play for the Gators and all that.”
Still, on the rare instance that his shifty footwork fell short and ended with a violent blow that resulted in Passmore suffering from a concussion, Passmore’s mother, Takshia Russell, called for a shift of his said grand plan, effective “immediately.