HUNTINGTON
Heater, the veteran Marshall defensive coordinator and secondary coach, wasn’t talking about the WWE title-belt knockoff Gant received Saturday as one of the Herd players of the week during spring practice.
Heater’s reference point was the rangy safety’s decision to become a contributing major college football player last season, after Gant arrived at Marshall as a three-star recruit who had offers from more than a dozen power conference schools before he backed away from Georgia and signed with the Herd in 2014.
“He just decided he wanted to change,” Heater said of the 6-foot-3 Gant’s emergence last season.