";s:4:"text";s:3081:" “That’s probably the coolest part of the whole situation, is we got to give them a big brother.”The linebacker made the choice to do the right thing in spite of the potential consequences given his status as a prominent student-athlete on campus.A female friend from high school who was attending the party saw Greenlaw and told him she suspected someone had slipped something into her drink. (Photo by Abbie Parr/Getty Images)“You still remember those long nights that you cried alone by yourself when you didn’t have nothing to eat and all that, you remember all that,” he said in the profile story. Raiders draft Clemson national title hero, former walk-on WR Hunter Renfrow On Saturday, former Arkansas linebacker, Dre Greenlaw had his NFL dreams realized when the … It was through football where he found family. (Nhat V. Meyer/Bay Area News Group)“Paper or no paper, they’re my parents,” Greenlaw said in the 2018 profile by Murphy.Dre Greenlaw is under the radar no more.“I didn’t ever tell this story, because maybe someone would say “Oh, he shouldn’t have been at that party.” Maybe not. Greenlaw entered the foster care program when he was just eight years old, moving from place to place without a permanent home. When Greenlaw was 14 years old, Brian and his wife Nanci invited Dre to live with them.
“All of his life he’s had decisions made for him and he’s had things taken from him. “When that foster home closed down, it was a real message to us from God that said what you’re doing is great, but it’s not enough. “He needs a family, he needs a home, so we just kind of made that decision.”In three years, Kittle has gone from an overlooked fifth-round draft pick to the preeminent tight end in the game. It was through football where he found family. "I will be back here, and I will be back with a vengeance.