‘I’m a business:’ Alabama recruits entering NIL landscape face ‘education gap’

Kristy Hurts didn’t know much about football, though her son, Khurtiss Perry, was always a special talent. He steamrolled players in pee-wee. The kid who wasn’t a running back but got handoffs in high school because it took a few bodies to bring him down. Perry’s ability birthed opportunity in a way Hurts or Perry’s grandmother, Brenda Benton, never would have expected.