A great read… 👇🏼🧵 “Two men made a choice in that corner…One of them has to live with what he turned into. The other one already knew.” #GoDawgs #Class From Kenny Woods: Saturday night in Tuscaloosa a grown man reached over the wall at Bryant-Denny Stadium and slapped a Georgia player on the helmet. Then he shoved him. The player was Raylen Wilson, a 21 year old linebacker. Raylen walked away. Understand what you just read. A stadium that holds a hundred thousand people, a stranger's hands on his helmet, and the loudest thing in the building was Raylen Wilson's silence. That's the whole story. But, then again, it isn't. Most of us could not have responded the same. I know that I couldn't have. I wanted to know where Raylen got his august poise, so I went looking. Here's what I found. First, the game. Number 2 Georgia beat number 6 Alabama 20 to 17 on a Peyton Woodring field goal. If you stayed until the end you got one helluva football game. If you stayed past the end you got one helluva lesson. Now the man. By the account of the people filming, he started twenty or thirty feet back behind the end zone, pushed through his own people to get to the corner, and went after a kid in a helmet. Nobody has put his name out and I'm not going to guess at it. He isn't the story. He's the reason there is one. Swap the jerseys for a second. If a Georgia fan had reached over the wall in Athens and put his hands on an Alabama player, I'd be writing this same post about the Alabama kid, and he'd deserve it. Where you sit doesn't change what that was. C.S. Lewis wrote, "Every time you make a choice you are turning the central part of you, the thing that chooses, into something a little different from what it was before." Two men made a choice in that corner Saturday night. One of them has to live with what he turned into. The other one already knew. It would be worthless to spend a paragraph on what Raylen could have done to him. Anybody who watches Georgia football knows what Raylen Wilson does to a human being between the whistles. Strength, speed, and a will to win that does not switch off. He had every physical advantage a man can have over a stranger in the stands, and no time to think. In the heat of it, with a hand on his helmet, he did not unleash one ounce of that fury. He took one step back and kept walking. Afterward he wrote one line under the video: "I thought dude was a UGA fan tried to dap em up." Read that again. A stranger put hands on him and his first instinct was that the stranger must be a friend. That is not weakness. That is a man so certain of who he is that he did not need to prove it to anybody in the building. Thomas Jefferson wrote a young man in 1825, "When angry, count ten, before you speak; if very angry, an hundred." Raylen didn't need ten. He needed one step. The easy answer is that he's a Damn Good Dawg. This is, beyond a shadow of doubt, the truth. But it doesn't give Raylen Wilson or his family the respect they're owed. What you saw Saturday night was not a fluke and it was not luck. It was exactly how he was raised. Once I began looking, it did not take long to find where this story begins. It begins in Tallahassee, Florida, in a house where discipline was not a lecture. It was the schedule. His father, Robert Wilson, was a star receiver at Florida A&M, a 2016 inductee to their Hall of Fame, and played five NFL seasons for the Seattle Seahawks and the New Orleans Saints. Both teams named him Community Man of the Year for logging more volunteer hours than anybody else on the roster. He founded a free tutoring service for Title I schools. He and his wife Tiffany started a nonprofit that runs the only all girls group home in Tallahassee. He had his boys up at 5:30 in the morning running the track before school. When it was too dark to see, he drove behind them with the headlights on. Raylen says his dad chased them about two miles that way…

Another treatment is underway. Sharing the ride with my other mini-me this month. You guys know the sentiment… …I’d rather not have to be here, but I am grateful for this place. Prayers up, warrior family!! Much love to all of you!! 🙏🏼❤️🙏🏼 #GodIsGood #BeatingCancer #GratitudeIsTheAttitude PS - To say this journey is expensive is the understatement of the year. If you are able to help, I will put the link to the GoFundMe account that was set up for my medical costs. Every bit truly helps. I truly need all the prayers and financial support I can get. (The link is in the comment section.) Thank you in advance!!