Jacobs credits his father, Marty, for keeping their lives together when he was younger: “I don’t know how he did it.”
Alabama's Josh Jacobs is considered the top running back prospect in this year's draft class. By Adam Kilgore Adam Kilgore Reporter covering national sports Email Bio Follow April 22 at 3:43 PM NEW YORK — This past Thursday afternoon, on the second floor of a high-end fashion store overlooking Fifth Avenue, Josh Jacobs wove between a rack of $425 T-shirts and a display of fashion sneakers with price tags approaching four figures.
Last week, the path led to shops along Fifth Avenue. Jacobs tried on the 11 1/2s and liked what he saw. “If it was just me, I’m cool, I can hang at a buddy’s house,” Marty said. “But some of my buddies did some things I didn’t want my kids around. I had to tell Josh, ‘We’re going to do some things.’ ”
“If I look back as a teenager, I would have never imagined this for my children,” Marty said. “But it could have been worse. I could have been one of those fathers that left. But I didn’t. I could have done some things that made it easier. But I can’t raise them behind a wall, you know what I’m saying?”
“It would have been easy to sell drugs or rob people,” Jacobs said. “It would have been easy to do things like that. But it wasn’t worth it. You’re selling a certain amount of drugs, the return on it is like, you might as well have just saved your money. It was like, was the risk really worth it for the quick money?”
During Jacobs’s senior season, out of the blue, his direction changed. A coach in Texas with an avid interest in recruiting noticed game film of Jacobs. He contacted him, shocked more schools had not shown interest. Jacobs had no Facebook or Twitter account. The coach instructed Jacobs to sign up for social media and post his highlights.
For his first two seasons, he told no one about his experiences growing up. He viewed them as private and found them difficult to discuss. Josh Maxson, Alabama’s assistant athletic director for football communications, brought up the idea of making his story public, telling him he could help others in positions similar to his.“That’s the thing that sold me about telling the story,” Jacobs said. He shared it publicly this past summer, and ever since people have thanked him.
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