Patrick Willis

Born January 25, 1985, in Bruceton, Tennessee, Patrick L. Willis overcame abject poverty to become one of the greatest linebackers in NFL history. Working in cotton fields by age ten, Willis fled his alcoholic father's violence at seventeen, moving in with his high school basketball coach Chris Finley and his wife Julie alongside his three siblings. At Hollow Rock-Bruceton Central High School, he became the first pla…