Survival of the Fittest: With Unique Adaptability, Terrelle Pryor Makes NFL Mark

October 7, 2016   ·   Ryan Jones   ·   Jump to comments

Sometime last summer, not long after Terrelle Pryor signed with his fifth NFL team in as many years, he came home to Jeannette, Pennsylvania, bearing gifts. "He hunted me down," Jeannette Senior High School head football coach Roy Hall remembers, "and he brought me a Cleveland Browns hat." It was a typical gesture from Pryor, at once a minor act of generosity and a subtle statement of confidence. Cleveland would be a destination, not another stopover.
Two months later, for the fourth time in little more than a year, Pryor was released.
Just over a year later, Pryor may have finally made Cleveland his NFL home. With 19 receptions and 290 yards receiving through four games, the former Ohio State quarterback has been perhaps the lone bright spot in a winless Browns season.
To Hall, who was an assistant coach at Jeannette High during Pryor's time there, and to others who know the former prep All-American from his days as a Western Pennsylvania schoolboy legend, Pryor's unlik...

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