We begin with a dream.
With a 15-year-old football “phenom” who’d dreamed of wearing the hallowed golden helmet. No, not of Notre Dame, but of St. Thomas Aquinas.
Jaden Davis grew up watching the Fort Lauderdale high school football powerhouse and admiring players like Phillip Dorsett and Joseph McClary. He longed to be one of them, and as an eighth grader at Nova University School, he thought he had a shot. He was already playing varsity for the Suns.
“I get over to St. Thomas,” Davis said, “and you got guys like [future Miami signee] Sam Bruce and [future Miami signee] Michael Irvin and [future Florida State signee] Asante Samuel that’re still on JV.