Spencer Brown's always stood out from the rest.

"I was always the biggest kid in the class," the 6'8" Bills tackle said. "The growth spurt when everything came together was between my junior and senior year. I gained two inches every year when I was in high school. I was 6'2, 6'4, 6'6, 6'8. I gained two inches every year, but when the whole mind and body and spirit all came together to form one thing was my senior year. That's when everything skyrocketed. I was okay my junior year, but senior year is when it really took off."

Not in basketball, though.

"I can't dribble," Brown joked. "Can't dribble and I can't make anything outside the lane. I was just a lane body. Anything outside of that you don't have to guard me. It's okay."

Football is where things went right, but not right away. 

He had to plead with his parents to let him finally play padded football in 6th grade, driving over 20 minutes away to the town over.

When high school rolled along, all that was played was 8-man football. Brown worked his way around a few positions. While guard is where he started to settle in, he didn't particularly like it, so convinced the coaches to let him move to tight end.

Brown's play earned him one scholarship offer, which came from FCS Northern Iowa.

"That was a whim pretty much from what I'm told," Brown said. "He was just driving by the area and someone's like 'Hey, there's a 6'8" kid down there. Why don't you go check him out?' Okay. Hangs up the phone and shows up. He came down and talked to me then after our hour and a half conversation he offered me and then I committed the next week without seeing anything."

So off Brown went to UNI to play tight end, where things got off to a rocky start.

"I got that playbook and he [UNI teammate and now Titans TE Riley Moore] and I sat down in our dorm room that first night and I'm like, dude, I just don't know about this," Brown remembered. "There's shifts. There's motion. Line is definitely for me because it's pretty simplified."

While quite challenging, Brown said failure was never an option.

That's because his football path has always been bigger than his 6'8" frame.

"At this point it's just not about myself. 

It's about the 2 square miles of Lenox, Iowa he comes from and the 1,400 people that live within them.

"I'm just not playing for myself, I'm playing for Lenox," Brown said. "I'm playing for southwest Iowa and northern Iowa and anybody that's every had a connection with me or knows me. How I handle myself and how I play is going to transfer over to what people talk about back home in Iowa and I want it to be all good things. So that's pretty much why I do what I do."

Brown elevated into the Bills starting right tackle in just the 4th game of his NFL career.

The night that pro path began was one Brown shared with the community he's hoping to inspire.

"Electric," Brown described the moment he was drafted by the Bills in the 3rd round. "Electric city is what you call that. It was amazing. All my college friends were there. I lived in a double-sided duplex so there were about nine of us, ten of us living together. So all those guys came with me. My o-line coach from college was there. All my close family and friends. So just enjoying that moment. Then I had to go do an interview with the Bills and then I came back out and then there was like 200 people in my front lawn. That's just another benefit of having a small town. Everybody knows everybody. Everybody wants the best for everybody. They'll support the hometown kid and I can name every single one of them that stepped on my doorstep. So that was a cool part."

And that was just the beginning.

Hundreds of Lenox residents made the two hour trip to Kansas City last weekend to watch Brown take the field at Arrowhead Stadium when the Bills beat the Chiefs.

"Right after the Kansas City game there were a bunch of photos posted and stuff like that I was zooming in on all of them and I'm like I know who that is, that is, that is, that is, that is," Brown said. "I'm naming everyone in the photos. So having them follow me and knowing them and knowing their kids that they had. Them knowing me as a kid because everybody knows everybody in Lenox and everybody's history. Knowing that I'm bringing them joy and something to watch and something to maybe teach their young kids about and how I came from Lenox and what it takes. It's awesome to have support there."

As Brown is already setting an example for small town kids just like him.

"I just picture back to my cousin Jake Samo was a good athlete in Lenox and I remember idolizing him. I want to be just like Jake. My parents would say 'What would Jake do?' Just want to be 'How would Spencer do it?' and hopefully those kids take part of my career and plant it towards theirs as well and then get a jump start instead of waiting until their senior year to start taking off."

Better late than never for Spencer Brown, who's grown into a big part of the Bills success in a small amount of time.