MEET COLIN ALLRED

Houston businessman Christopher Williams had never heard of Colin Allred, the Tennessee Titans linebacker who became a lawyer, then a congressman from Dallas, and who now is senatorial candidate. He’s not the only one. Mr. Allred is a stranger even in historically Black areas like Houston’s Third and Fifth Wards, where he needs enthusiastic turnout, and among Democrats in the state’s suburbs, to succeed. But now Mr. Williams is all in for him to defeat the oleaginous Raphael “Ted” Cruz. Mr. Allred recently moseyed into Mr. Williams’ barbershop to visit with the folks and introduce himself and ask for support in his David versus Goliath fight to return Cruz packing back to CanCún, Mexico. As he told of his challenging childhood, the son of a single, public school teacher mother, his football scholarship to Baylor University, about playing in the NFL, and working in the Obama administration before being elected to congress, he made disciples. “I wasn’t going to vote before y’all came,” a reformed Mr. Williams said to Mr. Allred. Trying to reinvent his image, all his opponent has to say for himself is, “They’re going to tell you I am a horrible creature who devours kittens at sunrise,...