{"id":250465,"date":"2021-05-15T09:28:36","date_gmt":"2021-05-15T06:28:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/jake-burton-giants-rookie-ol-hopeful-driven-by-brothers-memory\/"},"modified":"2021-05-15T09:28:36","modified_gmt":"2021-05-15T06:28:36","slug":"jake-burton-giants-rookie-ol-hopeful-driven-by-brothers-memory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/jake-burton-giants-rookie-ol-hopeful-driven-by-brothers-memory\/","title":{"rendered":"#Jake Burton, Giants rookie OL hopeful, driven by brother\u2019s memory"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Jake Burton, Giants rookie OL hopeful, driven by brother\u2019s memory<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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The father tells the story about his oldest boy, two years older than his kid brother at the time.<\/p>\n

\u201cJacob was the ideal big brother, William really looked up to him, so we were fortunate that they got to play together in high school for a few years,\u201d Bradford Burton told The Post.<\/p>\n

\u201cEven when they were small, Jacob always looked out for him. One time on our back porch, they were home with my wife, and there was a rattlesnake, Jacob heard it rattling, and he was 4 \u00b9\/\u2082 or 5, William was like 2, 2 \u00b9\/\u2082, he pulled William and grabbed him and took him inside. They had a great relationship.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jacob, all these years later, recalls it this way: \u201cWe thought it was a sprinkler. William turned the corner, and I kinda pulled him back.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jacob Burton \u2014 or Jake \u2014 was proudly wearing his blue No. 70 at Giants minicamp on Friday, a 6-foot-6, 310-pound free agent dreamer who played right tackle at UCLA and then guard at Baylor, after transferring there when the Pac-12 opted out of the 2020 COVID-19 season.<\/p>\n

One of the driving forces in his life is William Burton.<\/p>\n

The kid brother who played two years of high school football alongside him on the defensive line and at tight end at Granite Hills High School in El Cajon, Calif., near San Diego.<\/p>\n

The kid brother who was a 6-foot-6 southpaw pitcher who loved Clayton Kershaw and Dontrelle Willis and threw in the mid 90s.<\/p>\n

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Jake Burton (top right), pictured in his youth with brothers William (left) and Zachary, grew up to be a Giants rookie free-agent signing on the offensive line. When William was 17, he was killed in an auto collision.<\/figcaption>
Burton family<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

The kid brother who perished when he was thrown out of the back of a Jeep one fateful Monday night, while returning from the end-of-season banquet.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s always in my heart and in my head, every day,\u201d Jake said.<\/p>\n

William was 17. Jake was at UCLA when his father called with the tragic news<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe worst nightmare, the worst thing, you know, coming true, and basically flipped my life upside down,\u201d Jake said, \u201cand it was never gonna be the same, and it took a lot to accept that \u2026 like it\u2019s one of those things that you never ever get over or anything like that. But instead, you kinda just learn to live with it a little bit more every day. It\u2019s the worst thing you could ever thinks about coming true.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bradford Burton coached Jake in eighth grade. He and his wife, Donna, have a third son, Zachary, who is at Granite Hills and plays defensive lineman and tight end, just as Jake and William did.<\/p>\n

Jake (who had a 3.8 GPA in high school) and William had completely different personalities.<\/p>\n

\u201cJacob\u2019s always been just a blue-collar grinder, success-driven guy,\u201d the father said. \u201cWilliam, I think, was the classic left-handed pitcher guy, kind of a free spirit and really happ<\/a>y-go-lucky, which was great for him as a pitcher. He never let anything bother him, never really got rattled.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jake: \u201cWilliam made everyone around him smile, everyone around him laugh. He just made people smile. I\u2019ve never seen anybody make literally everybody smile, laugh that much.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jake recalled one scrimmage.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis was going into my senior year,\u201d he said. \u201cWe were scrimmaging against a different team, but we weren\u2019t allowed to tackle the quarterback. [William] came around on the edge; he just smoked him. The opposing coaches and players were kinda like yelling, and he [was] just smiling, laughing all the way through. Whereas \u2026 I was kinda nervous if we were gonna get our coach in trouble or anything like that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bradford\u2019s twin brother, Mitch, was the offensive coordinator and tight ends coach during Jake\u2019s high school days.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s tenacious,\u201d Mitch said. \u201cAt tight end, he would knock people off the ball 15 yards down the field. And defensive lineman, same thing, driving O-linemen back.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jake\u2019s father played defensive line at San Diego State and Uncle Mitch played tight end and fullback there. Jake modeled his game<\/a> after J.J. Watt and Justin Smith when he played defensive line and Taylor Lewan and Lane Johnson when he was switched to offensive line.<\/p>\n

Jake is eager to please Giants head coach Joe Judge.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s an amazing coach,\u201d Jake said. \u201cYou could just tell that he\u2019s a winner.\u201d<\/p>\n

He knows about the team\u2019s history. \u201cFour Super Bowls \u2014 \u201986, \u201990, 2007, 2011,\u201d Jake said.<\/p>\n

His parents and Zachary sent him a Facebook<\/a> video for Baylor Senior Night last November, on which his mother said: \u201cI wish William were here to also express how proud he is of you. I know he has looked down upon you every single day.\u201d<\/p>\n

And whenever Big Brother looks back up, he is assured that William would be smiling.<\/p>\n

\u201cRight now, I\u2019m just trying to work hard and get better every single day and do everything I can just to improve and to stack days upon days,\u201d Jake said, \u201cand I think he\u2019d be really proud of that.\u201d\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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