Dez Bryant has had a difficult upbringing and several issues coming out of Oklahoma State and his initial seasons with the Dallas Cowboys, but hasn't had any problems of late.
Bryan Broaddus, a former scout, said that Bryant had as bad of a background as any player he has studied.
“The worst I had ever seen of a background is the kid Dez Bryant,” Broaddus said. “When you look at what he went through and then you're talking about these players, and it's hard for them to get away from these people in their lives because these people have been with them when they were nothing, when they were nobodies. All of a sudden you're thinking, ‘OK, I'm going to turn my back on my three buddies here. I have to change, but they ain't changing.' I think if Dez Bryant was playing in St. Louis or Baltimore or Seattle, I think the fact that his family is here with him, I think that was a really hard adjustment for him. Hopefully from what we've seen, he's managing that well. That's the important thing.”
