MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — West Virginia running back Justin Crawford wears one of the WHOOP bracelets, the tell-all technology that compiles players’ heart rates, sleep cycles, fatigue levels and enough physiological data to fill a hard drive.
Too bad Crawford’s team didn’t have this $500 piece of technology at Northwest Mississippi Junior College, because his would have been a bio-profile worth framing. Holding part-time jobs at Popeye’s at Wal-mart, helping raise his first child, attacking sleepless nights by driving to a local gym to work out at 2 a.m. — and, oh yeah, becoming the national juco player of the year.