Baylor's Abram Smith ran through adversity into success

WACO – The drill was called "Blood Alley" and it almost resulted in Abram Smith becoming a basketball player. The Baylor running back was seven years old at the time, and it was his first tackle football practice. He loved the flag football season a year before. He wasn’t so sure about the contact required in pads. 

“The other kid hit me so hard that my head hurt,” Smith remembered. “I started crying and went to my mom. She told me to go rub some dirt on it and that I’d be fine. That is how my family is built.”