LaJohntay Wester is used to being the smallest and thus usually doubted.
Long before the rookie was a sixth-round draft pick of the Ravens selected to be their answer to last season’s punt return woes, he spent his childhood in southwest Florida sandwiched between his bigger, taller football playing brothers John Jr. and Jaylen, both of whom played defense and often had their way with the diminutive middle child of John and Laquita Wester.
“I didn’t really like contact growing up,” LaJohntay told The Baltimore Sun. “I wanted to score and dance, so I stayed on the offensive side.”
It wasn’t always easy to do so in the Wester household, where the boys’ father wouldn’t return home from his day jobs as a personal trainer and massage therapist until around 11 p.m., walk in the door and immediately challenge his sons to race him out in the street.
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