By his junior year, his light finally got a chance to shine as a running back and by his senior year, he was the number one running back prospect in America. Now every college in the country wanted to offer him a scholarship. His dream of getting that degree was now assured and there was the possibility of so much more. His mother, his brothers and his uncles have all told him how important that is. And so has the coach that has come to mean so much to him.
He still leans on them all. He calls his uncle each week before a game to hear his assurance of how things will work out for the best. I want to be as good a student as I am an athlete.
If he does in fact accomplish that, being as good a student as he is an athlete, he may be the next Shakespeare, cure cancer or be a Nobel Laureate, because that's just how good he is as an athlete. Richardson said that it's important to him, his mother and his daughter all equally to finish his degree. There is guilt over the time that he can't spend with his daughters, but he knows that life is about priorities now. Perhaps he is just the kind of man who finishes what he starts, who wants to set the right example to his own children and student athletes everywhere.
This is in fact the reason why student comes first in the phrase student athlete. That's just how good an athlete he is. I'm fitting to get evicted. It's stuff like that that adds up. When he got traded to the Indianapolis Colts, he bought another million-dollar mansion and paid movers to bring his stuff and his family down from Cleveland, even though he says he asked his family why they couldn't do the moving for him. According to Richardson's brother Terrell, the following people were living with Richardson: "Me, my brother, my older brother visited frequently, Trent's kids, Trent's girlfriend, my uncle, my Aunt Vera, my cousin Julius, my cousin Devin, a friend of our family's Marlon.
He plans to live with his grandmother in Pensacola and continue his rehab, and now has enough money left to support himself and his immediately family. By Jared Dubin. And my trainer will tell you the hardest worker he has in that doggone weight room is my 6-year-old.
On the gridiron, he splits his time between quarterback, running back and linebacker. At 5 years old, he was already playing with an age group a year older than him.
It was just amazing to see how smart he is with it, how fast he picks it up. And that's one of the biggest things for me. I almost didn't name him after me because I didn't want him to ever have to feel like he had to live up to what I have done, you know? Because those are big shoes and there's a lot to fill in. But from looking at it from what I can see he's going to be better than me, way better than me. He'll ask if we can watch 'Boss Baby. He's still 6.
They grow up fast, though. Richardson, 27, is a young father when he, himself, never had a father figure growing up. Taliyah, the oldest, is already She still lives in Richardson's home town of Pensacola, Florida, with year-old Elevera, about four hours away from Birmingham. Both are excellent students. She got all advanced classes," he said.
She was scared to send me the report card because she had a B. And I was like 'Baby, I'm so proud of you. The moment Richardson began talking about his children, he changed.
He sat up. But Richardson lost a significant chunk of that. The Browns made Richardson their starter from Week 1, and he started 15 games in his rookie season. He carried the ball times for yards and 11 touchdowns, catching another 51 balls for yards and a touchdown.
He started two games for the Browns in before they traded him to the Colts on September 18 for a first-round pick.
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