His infant son saying the only word he knows. Rivers doesn't have to go on. The sparkle in his eyes, the smile on his face, tell all. His success isn't measured in catches, yards and touchdowns. His success is his family.
Rivers is a father and husband first, everything else second.
And as the number of unmarried athletes who father children grows and the stigma surrounding it disappears, players such as Rivers and Oklahoma linebacker Torrance Marshall have taken a different approach. Some may call it old-fashioned. Some may call it a Biblical model. The players simply call it family. Homebody Marcellus has known LaTasha forever.