Has been drumming since he was two years old. His father, Wilson Sr., sang in a gospel group and Wilson backed him up on the drums.
Grew up in Elkhart, TX, roughly 10 miles from the hometown of RB Adrian Peterson. Wilson and his dad, Jeff Wilson Sr., regularly attended Peterson's high school games, breaking down his play to emulate his style in practice.
Has been drumming since he was two years old. His father, Wilson Sr., sang in a gospel group and Wilson backed him up on the drums.
Grew up in Elkhart, TX, roughly 10 miles from the hometown of RB Adrian Peterson. Wilson and his dad, Jeff Wilson Sr., regularly attended Peterson's high school games, breaking down his play to emulate his style in practice.
Goldmine
Wilson Jr. holds a close relationship with his father, Jeff Sr. His father, who played running back at the University of Texas-Arlington before the school decided to end the program, has guided Jeff Jr. throughout his athletic career and life. "He's always been a major part of my life," Jeff Jr. said. "I don't even remember him missing a single one of my games. That's the type of father he is."
When he was 13 years of age, Wilson moved to Elkhart, TX, to live with his father, Jeff Sr. Wilson and his father used the rural surroundings to their advantage, creating a training program using the equipment they already owned. "We'd go old school," said Wilson. "We'd just hook up a tractor tire to a rope in the front yard, put a little loop around it and now I'm running with the tire. That was kind of like our little sled." The two of them would get up early every day and train, running long distances and catching passes in the yard. "That's why I love the country. There's a lot of things you can do with a lot of different things. You can have fun with it." When his little sister moved out of the house, Wilson and his dad then converted her room into a makeshift gym. "We had the cement weights," Wilson said. "It was basically a rock. If you dropped it on the ground, it would crack. We didn't have a lot of big weights, so we would have, like, three or four 25s on the bar and two to four 10s. We used to make up stuff. That was the beauty of it."
NFL players had the opportunity to participate in the NFL's annual My Cause, My Cleats campaign during Week 14 of the 2019 season. Wilson and his teammates represented their respective causes with custom-designed cleats in an effort to raise awareness and funding. Wilson represented MADD, saying, "I play for awareness against drunk driving."
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