But by the time he was preparing to go to high school, he wasn’t doing much on a daily basis. His father and brother knew he needed to find a sport to be involved with at the next chapter of his early life, so they pushed him towards football. Cunningham, however, eventually opted to at least put himself out there to see what happened with football. “My brother and my father were like, ‘You’re too big to be sitting around. “My pops dropped me off, I gave it a try, and then after that, it went from there.”