BOL Round Table

"There’s still a small part of Alonzo Lawrence that wonders how different his path to the NFL might have been if he’d stuck it out at Alabama. Lawrence, a safety at Lions rookie mini-camp this weekend, was a former blue-chip prospect out of Mississippi who committed to Alabama, but never made it on the field."
"Lawrence says there are times he wonders what it would have been like to be a part of two championship teams at Alabama. He was in the same recruiting class as safety Mark Barron, who was selected seventh overall in this year’s draft by the Buccaneers.
“I look back at the rings and stuff and the fun they were having on TV, but I learned taking the dirt road and it made me grow up a lot,” Lawrence said. “I think the road I took was the right step for me in this situation.”