The Cincinnati Bearcats premier cornerback Sauce Gardener is living his moment. Coming from humble beginnings, the 21-year-old never imbibed with his fellow teammates or ever celebrated with a cigar in his hand even after winning the AAC Championships. He was focused on one thing and one thing alone, which was to make his mother proud. 

“Growing up in Detroit, we didn’t really have anything,” Gardner said. “But what I did have was a mother who always made the impossible, possible.” The young cornerback mentioned how his mother used to give him a hard time on his demands as a kid but would still receive it as a gift at Christmas. “She’s my hero,” he mentioned.

And now that his NFL dream is about to come true, he is finally preparing to return the favor to his mother. Now he can proudly tell his mother to retire instead of watching her leave for work every day. 

Sauce Gardner thanks his mother by telling her to retire

“It felt great,” Gardner said. “She’ll always be like, ‘Nah, I’m gonna go to work.’ It just felt great to be like ‘no, you don’t have to anymore.’ That was just a blessing, because I always told her growing up, ‘you ain’t gonna have to work anymore.’ When I wanted her to pay for camps, she’d be like ‘do you have to go to this camp?’… She’d always end up paying for it so I could showcase my talent. It got me here.”

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The NFL Combine was an excellent opportunity for Gardner to showcase how he shut out receivers and let no one score even a single receiving touchdown against him in his three-year collegiate career. And he did just that. The 2021 first team All American clocked an impressive 4.40s 40-yard dash, an event he so desperately trained for. 

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The junior year cornerback ranks second in his position and is very close to achieving his dream. 

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