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If you see Trey Wolfe's name at all during the NFL Draft, it will pass in a blink

#9 Thomas "Trey" Wolfe (Defensive Back)
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Trey and Son Christian
 Trey and his son Christian

Wolfe approached Roquemore at halftime of a game against Clark Atlanta University and told him about the phone call.
 
"I said, 'We'll take care of that after the game,'" Roquemore recalls, "'but we have to take care of business right now.'"
 
Wolfe listened. Neither Roquemore nor Pittman remember a moment when Wolfe's play slipped on the field. Wolfe remembers just one instance: A 30-yard pass relinquished on the second play of the game. Then he snapped back to the present, to his next step, and the next. Wolfe finished with six interceptions that season.
 
Wolfe's first move was to determine if the child was his. He received pictures of the child and showed his own mother. She didn't have to look long before telling him, "Trey, that's your baby." A DNA test confirmed: Christian was Wolfe's son, with 99 percent certainty.
So Wolfe took the next step.
 
"When I got the DNA test back, I realized I can't act like this no more."
 
When Wolfe was an ineligible athlete at Midwestern State, he drank often, and hard.
 
"I didn't want [my sons] to view this in the light where my actions were right," Wolfe says. "It was reckless. I just want to be there for them. I just have to gather myself financially so I can be there for them. Georgia and Texas, back and forth -- financially, it's going to be tough.
 
"Instead of taking trips out to Dallas, or Lubbock, or Houston one weekend, I would take trips down to Florida to see my son because I was in Georgia and he's two hours away."
 
Roquemore has a feeling that the changes in Wolfe's perspective are permanent. He laughs and says that his daughter is 35 now.
 
"He can alway go back and look at how he dealt with it straight on after trying to shy away from it and not really deal with it. And he's going to be able to pass this on to someone else like I passed it on to him.
 
"It's going to come around full circle one day."
 
For now, Wolfe's fortunes are cresting. He was named a second-team Division II All-American in 2013 after recording eight interceptions among 14 passes defended. He played consecutive seasons for the first time since high school, and was named a captain by his teammates at 24 years old.
 
"I would joke around with them, like, 'When I was a young dinosaur -- when I was 19, 20,' Wolfe says. "Telling them seriously that there are things you can't do, things that can catch up to you."
 
Wolfe isn't the third-round prospect that Willy Robinson promised he would become at Arkansas, but there is plenty of reason to hope that he will be signed as a free agent, at the very least. Multiple NFL teams have kept in contact with Wolfe this offseason. There were 23 teams in attendance at Georgia State where he held his pro day. They saw some of the same things as Roquemore -- a "freak by nature."
 
"One of his biggest assets is that he really doesn't know how good he could be."
 
"One of his biggest assets is that he really doesn't know how good he could be," Roquemore says. "As a coach, I can see a little bit more because I can watch him on tape, I get to see a lot of things that he don't see."
 
Roquemore has never seen Wolfe get beat on a deep pass. He throws out names like Darrelle Revis, Darrell Green and Deion Sanders and concludes, "I think he can be one of those guys, I really do." He calls Wolfe the best cornerback he has ever had. But that's not what makes the coach most proud.
 
"It's a combination that makes me happy about him," Roquemore says. "He got the issues and situation right with his children. That was a thing that made me proud."
 
That goes for Wolfe, too.
 
"I know I'm 25 and I don't have time to joke around, I don't have time to play around," Wolfe says. "I think a lot of that comes to my responsibilities off the field as a father.
 
"I'm actually kind of a family guy now. I love spending time with my sons. I love just being around them and developing them, as far as mentally and physically, because I have two healthy sons."
 
The paradox of the NFL Draft and its all-consuming bloat is that it creates a platform for hundreds of stories like Wolfe's to be heard, then drowns it with noise and flash and information. There is space between the comatose days after the bowl season and the frenetic mid-April draft run-up during which to learn something about less-heralded characters, but these smaller lessons can be hard to hear over the deafening, warping wash of discordant opinions on Jadeveon Clowney, Teddy Bridgewater, Johnny Manziel and the like.
 
But in the dying minutes of the seventh round, if you keep your ears open, you might hear something new. When the analysis has been exhausted alongside, a bit of wisdom may escape: The parable of the cornerback from Marietta, as told by his equivalent yogi.
 
"I always told him, 'It's not whether you start, it's whether you finish,'" Roquemore says. "It's not where you begin, it's where you end." Trey Wolfe, at last, is ready to get started.
 
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