All Shannon Sprawls wants is a reasonable chance, one Tyner coach Wayne Turner has given to the running back and linebacker.
Yet providence has taken a hand in the junior’s development. As an eighth-grader, Sprawls was struck by a car and suffered a broken foot. Then three games into his freshman year, he tore the ACL in his left knee.
“He didn’t even collide with anybody,” Turner recalled. “He was going down to cover a punt – just planted to make a cut – and it tore.”
The fickle finger wasn’t through. In his sophomore season, again Game 3, Sprawls again suffered an injury.
“He was breaking down to make a tackle, and it’s the same story but the other knee – torn ACL,” Turner related.