Once he entered middle school, Miles made a life-altering decision, choosing to pursue football over baseball, citing his desire to play a contact sport. It was at that same time he started dreaming of competing at a higher level, and he put all of his time and effort into turning that dream into a reality.
“When I was 12, that’s when I had it in my mind that my dream was to play in the NFL,” Miles Scott said. “Everything I did was different from that age on. That’s when it was a reality. I always believed. I put God first, and I just worked. That’s all I ever did. I prayed, I worked hard in everything that I did, and I’m here now.”
For Gerald Scott, who thought Miles was a better baseball player than football, he took his son’s decision in stride, offering his unbridled support throughout that time.
“I’ve always had this thing with my kids: Whatever you choose, you have to finish it for the year,” Gerald Scott said. “When football season was over when he was in fifth and sixth grade, he would go out in the backyard and start running routes and pretending that he was still playing football.
“I really never picked past my kids. I always let them make their own choices, but what I always tell them is, ‘Once you pick it, you’re committed to it until the season is over.’ When the season was over, he still wanted to play football, so we got him anything that had to do with football.”
Miles played the first three years of his high school football career as a starting wide receiver at St. Laurence High School, located about 15 miles away from his hometown of Dolton, Illinois. Once the COVID-19 pandemic shut down sports in Illinois, Miles begged his parents to send him to the East Coast, where the football season was not impacted.
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