Reggie Davis has done a lot of overcoming the past few years.
No matter how difficult things appear to get for the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga running back, he seems to come out stronger on the other end.
A broken hip his sophomore season of prep football? He came back to rush for more than 800 yards with an average of 6-plus per carry as a junior at Percy Julian (then Robert E. Lee) High School in Montgomery, Alabama.
Then, in May 2020, his close friend Jamari Smith drowned in a lake at a state park near Auburn. Smith, who was about to be a freshman at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and was going to play football for the Blazers, was a grade ahead of Davis.
“That’s my dawg, man,” Davis said of Smith. “We’re related but we’re not related. We grew up together, got baptized together, did everything together in little league and stuff, we didn’t get to play too much football together. So his senior year of high school, we had to put that together and finally got to play against each other before he left us.”