Scott Armstrong, crouching, the 37-year-old director of sports medicine for Bethune Cookman University and former NFL trainer just received his law degree from Florida A&M College of Law. “A lot of what I do in my day job, as director sports medicine, as an athletic trainer, is risk management,” he said. “If we’re doing it in a safer way, then we’re doing a better job, and the students will see that, and the families will see that, and we’ll be a better institution.”

Recent Florida A&M College of Law grad Scott Armstrong is one of a handful of trained professionals who can spot the Achilles heel of a legal argument, and a torn Achilles on the football field.

The 37-year-old director of sports medicine for Bethune Cookman University and former NFL trainer figures there are only 10 licensed athletic trainers in the nation with a law degree — or “AT/JD’s.”