Eleven Warriors · Sep 19, 2018
Davon Hamilton's Ascendance Comes After Overcoming Confidence Issues and “Letting It Go”
It didn’t click right away for Davon Hamilton.
The defensive tackle now in his redshirt junior season at Ohio State entered the football program as an out-of-shape 315-pound lineman. He was the second-lowest-ranked recruit in the team’s 2015 recruiting class — only long snapper Liam McCullough was ranked below him — and also admits he struggled to consistently believe in his abilities.
That has changed this year, though.
“He's always had it. It's always, like, a confidence issue. He does not have confidence in his abilities sometimes,” fellow fourth-year defensive tackle Dre’Mont Jones said. “Sometimes, he'll just show it out of nowhere and then he'll pull back.
