CANTON, Miss. — The phone calls are brief.
They are between Damien and Damien.
They are between father and son, a prison inmate and a football player.
It’s been this way for nearly seven years.
Damien Dozier, Damien Lewis’ father, missed his son’s formative years while behind bars: those middle school days of Damien stumbling upon football in eighth grade because he “liked to hit things,” his mother says; the high school days, on a team of 26 players, when Damien completed his three-year career with 11 wins and zero scholarship offers; at junior college, where Damien developed into a 320-pound mauling offensive guard who drew the interest of dozens of college coaches.