Janoris Jenkins’ Ascent to Stardom Isn’t Your Typical Redemption Narrative

January 6, 2017   ·   Yaron Weitzman   ·   Jump to comments

NEW YORK — It's a Thursday afternoon in late December, days before the New York Giants' Week 17 matchup in Washington, and Janoris Jenkins—excuse us, "Jackrabbit"—is standing in front of his locker at the team's training center, fielding questions.
There's one about the bruised back that sidelined him the previous week, another on preparing for the upcoming playoff run. A host of other football cliches are lobbed before, finally, a reporter asks him something more pertinent:
Where did you get the hat?
"I made it," Jenkins says. It's a bucket hat, Giants blue, with a lowercase white "ny" stitched to the front. It looks like the kind you might see people wearing around a pool on the Upper West Side, only the top has been cut out so Jenkins can thread his black dreadlocks up and over the rim.
"So don't steal it now," he adds.
The questions then move back to football. Jenkins says he's excited for the playoffs—that one of the reasons he sign...

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