Jeff Hunter
Utah State senior cornerback Jalen Davis walks off the field at the end of an Aggie practice at Maverik Stadium in Logan.
LOGAN — Considering that Jalen Davis had received just one offer from a Division I football team, and that team was going to open the season on the road against an SEC team with a storied history, no one could blame Verdis and Dana Davis for not anticipating a need to travel from Southern California to Tennessee to see their true freshman son play in front of 102,000 people at Neyland Stadium.
“I remember calling his dad the third week of August and saying, ‘Verdis, you need to buy a plane ticket to Knoxville,’” Utah State head coach Matt Wells says.