This is a good article about former Tide star running back Bobby Humphrey and his son who is going to be a junior at Hoover HS this year. Marlon Humphrey is a DB and already has an offer from Bama.
Bobby tiptoed through his freshman season at UA before breaking down the door as a sophomore, rushing for 1,471 yards and 15 touchdowns. When the 1987 season began, Bobby was being hailed as a potential Heisman Trophy candidate. He ran for 1,255 yards and finished 10th in the balloting.
A foot injury the following season ended talk of a second run at the Heisman, but the Denver Broncos had seen enough, selecting him in the first round of the supplemental draft.
Under the bright lights and the burden of weighty paychecks, something changed in Bobby. The sure-handed ball carrier began fumbling his life away off the field. After a successful rookie campaign, his attitude changed. In 1989 he was arrested for driving under the influence, and two years later he held himself out of camp for 14 weeks while negotiating a new contract. A year later, he was traded to the Miami Dolphins.
In the ninth grade, the light went on for Marlon. He began to excel in track, winning the gold medal in the 2010 Junior Olympics. The confidence was infectious, spilling over onto the football field. Coaches switched the former running back to the secondary, and Marlon quickly discovered he liked being the one delivering the hit, rather than being on the receiving end.
"He started developing," Bobby said, calling 2010 his son's breakthrough moment. "He started getting bigger and started to believe."
Hoover coach Josh Niblett said he took notice of Marlon's physical gifts in the ninth grade, and more so last year, but it was even earlier that he saw Marlon had what it took mentally to play the game.
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