If you want someone to speak to your team about making terrible decisions away from the football field, there may not be a better person than former Ohio State running back Maurice Clarett.
Clarett’s story is well documented. He went from being on top of the world at Ohio State after winning a national championship and getting drafted by the Denver Broncos, to being locked up and everyone wondering what could have been.
Recently Clarett spoke to the Florida State football team (they have had a few run ins with the law lately if you haven’t heard) and he revealed how he wanted to get into a shootout with the police so that he could die.
It is pretty scary to to see the state of mind that Clarett was in back then. Clarett could easily be dead right now, but instead he is sharing his story with young athletes, so that they don’t travel down the same path he did one day.
I hope Clarett was able to reach the players at Florida State given the number of off field incidents they have had recently.