The Cowboys star running back is one of four NFL players who have stepped up, according to the mother of Jaylon McKenzie.
Without ever playing a high school game, Jaylon McKenzie was one of the most-watched young football players in the country. /) By Cindy Boren Cindy Boren Reporter covering sports, with an emphasis on politics and national stories Email Bio Follow May 8 at 11:19 AM An established NFL star reportedly has reached out to the family of Jaylon McKenzie, a 14-year-old aspiring football player who was killed by a stray bullet as he left a party over the weekend.
McKenzie was a 5-foot-7, 148-pound eighth-grader from Belleville, Ill., a St. Louis suburb, and had already drawn the attention of college scouts. A student at Mason-Clark Middle School in East St. Louis, he scored two touchdowns and caught five passes for 161 yards in the Pro Football Hall of Fame all-American Game for middle-schoolers last summer. That also drew the attention of Sports Illustrated, which included him in a feature on “Six Teens Who Will Rule the Future in Sports” last November.
Gunner told the Belleville paper that her son was trying to leave the party in Venice, Ill., when a fight broke out. “Jaylon did everything right. If he did anything wrong, I didn’t know about it,” she said. “He got up every morning, went to school, did his work. He never rode with anyone else; I’d take him to school, or sometimes my husband, and we’d pick him up. Then the next day, we’d do it all over again.
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