Source: miami.cbslocal.com --- Sunday, July 02, 2017
SFHSSports: Twitter | Facebook Donnell Bennett, Jr. never had anything handed to him. He fought for everything he achieved in his professional life by out-working everyone else around him. Last Saturday, the eight year NFL veteran, who stayed at home and went to the University of Miami, took center stage – as the guest speaker at the Sixth Annual Wallace McIntosh –“Coach Mac” High School 7-on-7 Tournament at Mullins Park in Coral Springs. While Western was capturing the team title – beating Taravella for the title – it was Bennett that the players and coaches listened to. As a standout wrestler and fullback at Cardinal Gibbons, Bennett went on to play football for the Hurricanes and in the NFL for the Kansas City Chiefs and the Washington Redskins . He was drafted in the second round of the 1994 NFL Draft . While Bennett was not the biggest, fastest or best, his belief in being able to outwork and outlearn anyone he came up against, was the reason he did so well at every step of his playing career. “I remember when I was at Miami and they signed James Stewart out of Vero Beach,” Bennett said to the players and coaches in attendance. “This was an All-American who at 6-3, 235 was big, fast and everyone had him coming in and starting right away.” As the athletes from Western, Taravella, Pines Charter, Spanish River, Coral Glades Blanche Ely and South Plantation listened, Bennett told them how he not only beat Stewart out, but why t ...
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