Gerald Hodges Jr.: My Life As An NFL Linebacker

Growing up in Paulsboro, NJ, how I got into football is a bit of a funny story. I have a cousin named Steven and he’s one year older than me and he got to start football a year ahead of me and I used to always want to go out there but I was too young. I used to always love, back in the day, when they had the plastic crated face masks. He used to come home from practice and he was carrying his plastic crated facemask and shoulder pads and I would just get so jealous.
I wanted to be out