Ricky Person Jr. doesn’t feel the same pressure as a year ago, and it’s showing every Friday night on the scoreboard.
Person enrolled at Heritage last year with a great deal of hype, but an injury in the fourth game of his junior year put him under a different kind of pressure: to not use it as an excuse. The people who had to know about Person’s high ankle sprain did: his family, coaches, the medical staff and his teammates.
“My teammates knew what I could do, but that’s football. Injuries happen, but I’m a running back and it comes with playing the position,” he said.