Former Alabama RB Bo Scarbrough working toward FBI career after NFL

Bo knows the FBI.

Former Alabama Crimson Tide running back Bo Scarbrough is entering his third season in the NFL with his fourth team in the Detroit Lions. Even though he’s only 23-years-old, Scarbrough knows at some point his football career will come to an end. Fortunately for him, he knows exactly what he wants to do post-football: become an FBI agent.

Are we seriously about to see the real-life Johnny Utah? We cannot wait for 21st century Point Break. We loved seeing Scarbrough run over SEC defenders in college and it’s going to be absolutely incredible when he can say, “Bo Scarbrough, FBI” or “I’m an FBI agent” in a few years.

Scarbrough said in an interview with ESPN that he plans to graduate from the University of Alabama with a degree in criminal justice before the start of the 2020 NFL season in Detroit.

“I like hands-on and like to be out in the field,” Scarbrough told ESPN. “I like to help people and I’m caring. I just figured that it would be the right thing for me. That it would be comfortable for me.”

“I want to pursue my dream and graduate. It was something that I was looking forward to after the season and after I was finishing getting my stuff together in Detroit.”

Bo Scarbrough plans to use his criminal justice degree to join the FBI.

This is the type of stuff you love to hear from former college stars like Scarbrough. Eventually, playing football at the highest level will come to an end. Many former star athletes struggle with this reality and are never able to recreate the thrill of playing in a big game. Scarbrough looks to be one of the lucky ones. He knows exactly what he’s doing when he calls it a career in the NFL.

Let’s just hope that Special Agent Scarbrough, better yet, Special Agent Bo, is every bit as awesome at his future career path sounds. If Scarbrough wants to keep playing in the NFL as long as anyone will have him, that would be terrific. So many of us grow up dreaming of playing on fall Sundays and it never manifests. Why does Scarbrough get to live out two incredible dreams?

Scarbrough finishing up his degree to become an FBI agent post-football is what it’s all about.

For more NCAA football news, analysis, opinion and unique coverage by FanSided, including Heisman Trophy and College Football Playoff rankings, be sure to bookmark these pages.