Taylor's troubles

A few years ago, you would have guessed he'd end up in the NFL.

Glory, money, the whole bit. After all, he was a running back, and a good one. Scored 15 TDs for the University of Texas in the big year — ’05.

Instead Ramonce Taylor has gone from the national championship Longhorns to lockup.

He got five months last week. He’s lucky it wasn’t longer.

The year after winning the national title, Taylor got himself kicked off the team. This rocket scientist was caught with four pounds of pot in his car.

Since them, he’s failed two drug tests, been found with a small amount of pot yet again, cited for another charge of criminal trespassing, failed to meet with his probation officer and was caught inside a nightclub (a no-no because he was on probation).

You wonder how someone could throw it all away like that, but I guess it happens.

Taylor still hopes to make it in the pros. Had a tryout with the Kansas City Chiefs. Says they were considering him for special teams. Says he’s found the Lord and will get straight.

I hope so, but I’d say the odds are slim.

He was so close to a pretty amazing life, and now he is so far.