BLACKSBURG, Va. — Kendall Fuller said that his earliest experience playing football was the flag football league his parents put him in at age 6 or 7. To hear his parents tell it, though, it is not an unequivocally happy memory.
“He didn’t want to play,” his father, Vincent Fuller Sr., said. “He wanted to tackle, because he saw his older brothers doing that.”
It is a theme that has defined the career of Fuller, an all-American cornerback who will lead Virginia Tech against top-ranked Ohio State on Monday night. Fuller’s three older brothers all played football at Virginia Tech, and then all three went on to play in the N.