Nothing could have prepared Jonathan Taylor for what he would experience on this college football recruiting trip. Not those college-level International Baccalaureate classes he was taking in high school, and certainly not the mean streets of Salem, New Jersey, where the greatest education of all was learned by steering clear of all that could go wrong.
"I'm walking through Harvard; you know, Harvard! And I'm thinking about what my dad and mom told me over and over while I was growing up," Taylor says. "You can be anything you want if you work hard. Don't ever let anyone tell you any different.