SPRINGDALE — Isaiah Nichols was energetic, extremely outgoing and never had trouble making friends as a kid.
That high-energy personality got him into a bit of trouble, too, whether it was the sibling rivalry with his older brother or disappearing into the pine woods that surrounded his Bradley County home in Warren in southeast Arkansas. He especially enjoyed exploring during deer season.
Warren is a football factory, a city of roughly 6,000 that once produced Arkansas football greats Greg Childs, Jarius Wright and Chris Gragg in the same high school class. The Lumberjacks have won three high school state championships since 2001, most recently in 2014.