Bryan Cox Jr. sat alone in a terminal at Gainesville Regional Airport with orange Beats by Dr. Dre headphones over his ears, separating him from the world around him. Just 48 hours before he would join his team in Knoxville, Cox had the unfortunate task of going to Atlanta to attend the funeral of his grandfather, Otis Williams.
Cox returned to the team after the funeral and had a career day, finishing with five tackles and three sacks. It was a breakout performance in every sense of the word. Coming into the game Cox had seven career tackles and just two sacks, but Cox didn’t want to call the game against Tennessee a breakout performance, “Just because I feel like there’s more to come,” he told reporters.