Boise State freshman linebacker Breydon Boyd turned off the TV this week while watching coverage of his hometown of Katy, Texas, in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey.
His childhood home west of Houston escaped the waterlogged fate that so many other houses in his town did not, but the dire situation some 1,700 miles away left him feeling helpless.
“I had a lot of friends I grew up playing football with in old Katy, and their houses did not make it through,” Boyd said. “... As of yesterday, I saw that a lot of my friends were on jet skis, a lot of them were on boats and a lot I still haven’t heard from, so I am just hoping that they are OK.