Sometime in July, Amari Rodgers began jogging. This wouldn’t have been such a big deal had he not three months earlier undergone surgery for a torn ACL. Tee Martin, the former championship-winning Tennessee quarterback, current UT assistant and also Amari’s father, could not believe what his son had told him. You’re jogging?! Martin is experienced enough in the college coaching industry to know that this could not be possible. His son, one of Clemson’s premier receivers, must be overstepping the bounds of a rehabilitation plan set by the school.
So he did what any parent would—he called the coach.