Out of Tarboro, a Heisman Trophy contender emerges in Georgia RB Todd Gurley

Posted Sep 13, 2014
They used to play these great, long football games in a field next to the row of mailboxes and across the street from the trailers, Todd Gurley and the kids from the neighborhood, playing in a field in a mobile home park nestled between the railroad tracks and the highway. The sounds. Trains rolling by. Cars speeding past. All off to somewhere else, maybe the Outer Banks, maybe somewhere west, hardly ever here. (Charlotte Observer)

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