Pacman Jones and Chris Henry were 'brothers' at West Virginia. They made it to the NFL, then they almost blew it. One of them turned it around. The other never got the chance. So Pacman stepped up. Now, he's helping raise Henry's kids.
Jones had become the NFL’s poster boy for bad behavior, arrested or questioned by police in eight separate incidents since being drafted in 2005, including a 2007 shooting outside a Las Vegas nightclub that left a man paralyzed and cost Jones $11 million in damages. He was brash, boastful and admittedly immature — “I was just being rebellion,” he once famously said — perpetually flirting with trouble and often finding it.
Jones was selected by the Titans with the No. 6 pick in the 2005 draft after a standout college career at West Virginia. Chris Jr. is a straight-A student who was piling up scholarship offers before he played a game of high school football; he’s currently among the top-ranked wide receivers in the Class of 2026. His options include Ohio State, Michigan, Georgia, USC and his father’s alma mater, West Virginia. Kali Jones, his coach at Withrow High School, says multiple coaches from high-major programs have Henry projected as a Top-10 NFL draft pick whenever he declares.
“You can’t get better without running routes,” Jones preaches to Chris Jr. So that’s what they do, for a full hour, twice a day, all summer long. Then they lift. Then they catch from the Jugs machine. Then they pore through tape.Easing up isn’t Pacman’s style. He wouldn’t do it with Slim in college, wouldn’t do it during his 12 years in the NFL, and he won’t do it with the teenage boys he’s brought into his home. When he lines up opposite Chris Jr.
“I loved coaching him because he could take coaching,” Rodriguez says now. “Some guys you get on hard and they just go into a shell and don’t respond. He wanted every challenge.”Early on, he barely spoke. “Chris would say nothing, and I’m not sure he really liked practice,” Rodriguez says. “But he was so, so talented.”He’d take plays off. He’d take entire practices off.
The most remarkable layer to Chris Henry’s story, his former coach says, was the transformation. The immaturity that dogged his early years in the league started to fade after he met Loleini. They were planning their wedding during Henry’s fifth season. Lewis says he gets a half-dozen calls a year from former players and their wives raving about the week their son spent working with Jones at J24. The longtime Bengals coach, who was in Cincinnati for Henry’s tumultuous run and untimely death as well as Jones’ late-career revival, attended Jones’ wedding in 2014. He looked around and saw who was there, then weighed what it said about a man who’d finally, finally, finally gotten out of his own way.
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