If Henry Ruggs III, last year's star receiver for Lee-Montgomery, was somewhere on the practice field, teammate JaKorey Hawkins was right there with them.
Of course they were teammates and friends, but this was all business.
Ruggs was one of the state's top players last year and signed with Alabama to play football in February. Hawkins, a 5-foot-11, 190-pound rising senior cornerback, took every chance he could to match up 1-on-1 with Ruggs in practice.
"Our DBs (defensive backs) coach would always talk about how good he was, saying he's going to be the top receiver in the nation, which he is," Hawkins said.