He braced himself against a bigger player -- a fullback from Navy, to be more specific -- when he felt the pain in the big toe of his left foot.
"I don't know what I felt," Roderic Teamer Jr. recalled about that play just before halftime in the second week of the 2017 season. "I just really couldn't walk after that."
Teamer will begin his fourth season as starting safety for the Tulane football team next week with intent on showing how good he truly can be. Never before last season had he experienced an injury that caused him to miss games, and he missed two after what he said was a toe ligament tear suffered against Navy.