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How Houston's Fifth Ward Fuels Miami's Xavien Howard To Become Nfl’s Top Cb

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Pretty touching story. Xavien is a survivor. Makes me root for him even more.

https://sports.yahoo.com/houstons-f...vien-howard-become-nfls-top-cb-230417668.html

PEMBROKE PINES, Fla. – Xavien Howard’s first brush with murder happened when he was 13, he says.

On a rainy afternoon in Houston, Xavien was hooping alone in the street in front of his house when two figures in the not-too-far distance appeared. One he’d seen before; the other he did not know.

As the man he’d seen before walked toward the corner store, the second man opened fire, killing him on the railroad tracks just a few yards away from Xavien.

The killer started running away when he noticed Xavien, who was unsure what to do, looking on.

“Go in the house, they shooting,” the man said before darting away, leaving Xavien stunned.

Neighbors started pouring outside to find out what happened, with many moving closer to the body. Xavien, however, did not move an inch.

Eventually, Xavien’s mother Luckcher Howard came out of the house and shook him out of his trance.

“Mom,” he said, “I saw a dude shoot a guy on the train tracks.”

Both were terrified. The shooter saw Xavien, and he also knew where he lived. They both knew his life might be in danger if the shooter thought Xavien told the police. So Luckcher sent Xavien 20 minutes away to live with his grandmother for the next two months, just to be safe, until the police found the killer.

Xavien returned home, but he wasn’t the same. He says he was “traumatized,” but in retrospect, Luckcher says it helped him.

“It grew him up, let him know what he wanted to do in life,” Luckcher told Yahoo Sports. “He wanted to hang around positive people.”

He wanted to get out of the Fifth Ward.
 
“He also plans on buying his mom a big new house when – and if — he lands a big-time extension with the Dolphins, which he’ll be eligible for after this season as his rookie deal is set to expire after the 2019 campaign.

“That’s what I’m hoping right now,” Xavien says. Sometimes it doesn’t happen like that; sometimes guys go somewhere else and get their bread."

I'm afraid that's exactly what's going to happen next year :(
 
This current FO has way more brains since Gase has played a larger role. The FO just snagged Nick O'Leary, another great move. How's the Albert Wilson deal looking, Frank Gore, Quinn, Spense etc. Anyway, no way we let Howard out of town! He is a great one and his interceptions are amazing and so clutch!
 
Great read. Tons of respect for X. Seems like a great dude.
 
This current FO has way more brains since Gase has played a larger role. The FO just snagged Nick O'Leary, another great move. How's the Albert Wilson deal looking, Frank Gore, Quinn, Spense etc. Anyway, no way we let Howard out of town! He is a great one and his interceptions are amazing and so clutch!

Don't forget to mention they didn't pay Landry and got a cheaper and better option for their team in Albert Wilson.
 
No doubt we need to lock this guy out. Top Corners are hard to find so don't let this one get away.
 
Back up the Brinks trucks for this kid. When Belichick is paying out big money to corners that should tell you something. It’s a max premium position in the nfl. Make it ****ing happen.
 
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