LORMAN, Mississippi — Blocking is a funny thing, really. It’s a player throwing his body into somebody else to protect the ball carrier. If the play goes well, the blocker doesn’t get much credit. If it goes poorly, the blocker receives the blame.
And when a blocker tries to protect in a way he shouldn’t, it sets everybody back.
Timothy Gardner was sent a ways back by doing just that. He was sent back then forward then back again, and now he finds himself at an FCS school trying to make it to the NFL anyway.
Gardner came from nothing in Indianapolis and found a way out through a football scholarship to Ohio State, only to be arrested by Columbus, Ohio, police before the fall of his freshman year and be dismissed from the program. He found himself at a prep school in New York, then Indiana for two years and enters this fall in his second year at his fourth stCONTop, Alcorn State.
He’s still blocking.
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