Former UCLA and Dorsey star, who suffered a spinal cord injury with the Packers, embraces his mission as director of social justice and football development
Former UCLA and Dorsey High star running back Johnathan Franklin speaks at an event he put on in his role as the Rams’ director of social justice and football development. As his new team travels to compete against his old team, the Rams en route to Green Bay to play the Packers, Johnathan Franklin won’t be leaving Los Angeles.
But when Franklin went to reach for the ball at the bottom of a pile of bodies, an even worse realization hit him. Franklin spent the offseason training as if he would play again in 2014. But when he underwent a physical after reporting to OTAs, the spot was still on his spinal cord. Since the morning of his first Pop Warner game, when he brought his helmet with him to the breakfast table, Franklin had made every decision in his life because of football. It had allowed him to go to college. It had provided the foundation of his relationship with his family. And in a moment, it was all taken away.
“I could hear in his voice – I don’t want to be as dramatic as life was leaving – but I could feel him going to a sorrow,” his mother, Pamela Andrews, said. “And he would not allow me to go down there. It was just him going through it by himself, and that broke my heart.” “I kinda shared vulnerably really about my emotions and my pain for the first time in my life,” Franklin said. “And I realized there was a power in sharing the brokenness.”
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