JACKSONVILLE — Jarrad Davis cried out in pain as the stadium went quiet.
The linebacker pounded his right leg on the ground in frustration, unable to move the other as trainers tended to his injured ankle.
Coach Jim McElwain regularly refers to Davis as the “heart and soul” of Florida’s defense, and now he watched as that heart was reluctantly ripped out by way of a gingerly limp to the locker room.
That was two weeks ago during Florida’s win over Missouri.
And in the following days, it was announced that Davis was battling a “severely sprained ankle.