MURFREESBORO, Tenn. — When Tra Fluellen was first looking to move up to the FBS level from Houston Baptist, he looked for things to latch onto with the schools that reached out to him. When MTSU became one of those teams, there was one connection that was easy for the safety to make.
"Middle Tennessee is a smaller FBS school," Fluellen said. "But when you've got great players like Kevin Byard and the things that he's done and this program, you're always going to hear about him if you pay attention to the position that you play.