Both are still 20 years old. They are the NFL's version of trust-fund babies now, except that there seems to be little sense of entitlement.
They cannot afford entitlement. They know.
In all the years of listening to these guys, have you ever heard a 20-year-old say at his first real NFL press conference, "At my position, as a running back, you only get a certain amount of hits in this game and I always wanted to enjoy my time in the NFL?"
Guys who are 28 say that. Guys who are 32 say that. Kids do not say that on the day after they are drafted, but McCoy said it yesterday. That one sentence explained everything.
And his father and mother nodded.
"We were at the game," Ron McCoy said. It was Bishop McDevitt against rival Harrisburg High. It was the fourth game of LeSean's senior season.
"He broke his leg - it went this way and that way," Ron said. "I've always seen him get up from any type of hit. But this time, this hit was serious. He didn't get up. I remember running on the field and he said, 'Dad, I'm done. I'm done.' "
"He thought it was over," said his mother, Daphne. "He told me that yesterday."
"I said, 'No, it's not. It's an injury,' " Ron said. "The ambulance came and took him on. From there on . . . that was the first time that tears came out. I was hurting so much for him. He was set up to do so much and then, all of a sudden, one snap, it was done."
"It was an ankle," Daphne said. "The bone came out. It was a compound fracture. It was sticking out. He told me yesterday, he said, 'I thought this was never going to happen when I was in the hospital.' He didn't even think he was going to college. It was his senior year. He was getting ready to break all these records . . . I think that kind of helped to make his [NFL] decision.
"He told us that he got to thinking that he was in the same place as he was in high school, that everything was going good for him . . . and, bam, it was all over."
