I try to limit the amount of feel-good stories I write about because they typically do a better job speaking for themselves than I ever could, but - given the NFL's checkered past and present of all types of assaults on the fairer sex - this particular one is too refreshing not to take a second to, no pun intended, sip on. Of course, the football angle aside, it's always nice to hear tales told of people doing the right thing, as it's far often easier said than done, especially by teenagers in a substance-infused social setting. That said, the fact that an incredibly grateful father was hesitant to even tell this overwhelmingly uplifting story due to it featuring a college athlete who was, god forbid, at a party tells you everything you need to know about the disingenuous character dissection that goes into the NFL Draft. If i had to put a number on it, I would say approximately 90% of anecdotal evidence to the personality of prospects that comes to the light when it is at its brightest and most interrogative is overwhelmingly negative. I mean, look no further than the laughable amount of stereotyping that has been done of Josh Rosen and Lamar Jackson over the last 18 months for proof that NFL executives and analysts are like a jealous girlfriend going through a phone that isn't theirs when it comes to finding something incriminating about potential employees. So, I think we should all take a minute to sit back and smile while enjoying a thread of tweets that does something incredibly rare to this season of the NFL schedule of year in reminding us that the intimidating size and strength of future professional football players can actually be used for good off the gridiron. At the request of a forever grateful father, I will actually root for Dre Greenlaw for, on a night that could have altered an innocent life forever, he proved something that the draft process often makes not as obvious as it should be, which is that there are far more good people than bad eggs entering the league on annual basis.
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