Made in New Orleans: Deion Jones Tries to Be Next Katrina Kid to Take over NFL

April 20, 2016   ·   Brad Gagnon   ·   Jump to comments

There's a special group of young NFL players and top prospects who liken themselves to savages and consider themselves battle-tested in an extraordinary way. The members of this group of about a dozen Southerners, all between the ages of 21 and 27, have one thing in common. 
As teenagers, just as they were molding their football careers, one of the deadliest natural disasters in American history turned their lives upside down.
Like Odell Beckham Jr., Jarvis Landry, Eddie Lacy, Tyrann Mathieu, Kendrick Lewis, Mike Wallace, Landon Collins, D.J. Fluker, Alfred Blue, Keenan Lewis, Chris Clark and former LSU teammate/future star Leonard Fournette, rising 2016 NFL draft prospect Deion "Debo" Jones survived Hurricane Katrina. 
When the Louisiana-born-and-bred linebacker is drafted later this month, he'll join that group of mean-streaking stars at the NFL level, but he'll be one of the league's first Katrina kids who went through that experience as an actual ...

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