An unrated defensive tackle from Goldsboro High School in North Carolina, Jarran Reed was recruited just about as much as I was in high school, and I never even played football. The unknown 290-pound monster enrolled into Hargrave Military College for his freshman year, and started to gather some attention from the recruiting world after an eye-opening debut campaign.
Unfortunately, Reed did not qualify academically, and ended up going to the junior college factory: East Mississippi Community College. It was here that he met and befriended D.J. Pettway, a former Alabama lineman who had been kicked off the team for a robbery incident.