Sunday Morning Magazine With Rodney Lear

Tim Hightower was the starting running back for the Washington Commanders (then known as the Redskins) of the National Football League in 2011, when he suffered a torn ACL (anterior cruciate ligament) in his left knee during a game. Over the next four years he faced a lengthy recovery in body and soul. The future for which he had worked was changed beyond imagination, but he was determined to return to the game. Hightower’s story of his recovery from injury, as told in A DREAM WORTH FIGHTING FOR: Never Let Obstacles Stop You From Being Your Best.