While his Michigan teammates played last season, Chris Evans worked three jobs.
While his roommates, Josh Uche and Khaleke Hudson built their NFL Draft resumes, Evans was either mudding drywall, coaching special teams at Ann Arbor Huron High or washing dishes at Ahmo’s restaurant in downtown Ann Arbor during the weekends when he wasn’t making food deliveries.
Evans, expected to be the lead running back for the Wolverines last season, was suspended a year by the university for an academic issue, the specifics of which he has never divulged.
He remained in Ann Arbor, no longer on scholarship, no longer allowed access to the football building and when he should have been playing for first-year offensive coordinator Josh Gattis, Evans would instead catch his team play on television when he’d have a break at Ahmo’s.