Malachi Corley’s inspirational rise to New York Jets wide receiver

By Ian Roddy — 5/08/2024

Latanya Bridgewater was frantic.

Her 4-year-old son had disappeared. It hadn’t been 15 minutes since she’d put him down for a nap and left to pick up his sister from school around the corner, but in that time, the young Malachi Corley had somehow managed to disappear.

“We’re running around the house trying to find him, no idea where he could’ve possibly gone,” Bridgewater recalled in a recent conversation with Jets X-Factor. “We’re looking and looking, when finally we noticed the gate outside was open and realized our little black poodle Chico was gone too.”

Little Malachi had woken up from his nap and decided to take Chico for a walk all by himself.

“We’re in Florida, so you’re looking at like 90 degrees by now,” she said. “So now we’re frantically running around the neighborhood, knocking on doors, trying to see if anyone has seen him, when lo and behold, I see a lady coming toward us.”

Bridgewater describes her as the palest lady she’s ever seen, with her hand on Malachi’s back, guiding him home.

“There he was. He had the dog, still in his hand on a leash, and he was drenched with sweat,” she recounted. The pale lady, according to Bridgewater, only said one thing to her before walking off: “Next time, teach him his phone number.”

“When I look back over this story – we still talk about it as a family today – I truly believe that woman was an angel. And that was the moment from where I knew that God had his hand on Malachi’s life.”

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