It didn’t click right away for Davon Hamilton.
The defensive tackle now in his redshirt junior season at Ohio State entered the football program as an out-of-shape 315-pound lineman. He was the second-lowest-ranked recruit in the team’s 2015 recruiting class — only long snapper Liam McCullough was ranked below him — and also admits he struggled to consistently believe in his abilities.
That has changed this year, though.
“He's always had it. It's always, like, a confidence issue. He does not have confidence in his abilities sometimes,” fellow fourth-year defensive tackle Dre’Mont Jones said.