When I turned on the TV at noon on September 17, 2016 to watch the Ohio University Bobcats play the Tennessee Volunteers, I had no idea what kind of college player Ohio redshirt freshman safety Javon Hagan was—but by the end of the afternoon, Hagan let me know.
It would be understandable for a redshirt freshman playing in one of his first college games, on the road, in front of more than 100,000 fans, against the 15th ranked team in the country, to resemble a deer in the headlights: wide-eyed and frozen.