TROY – Troy running back Tanner Blatt answered the call and delivered – which is something he’s been doing for about a year now.
Don’t bother consulting Blatt’s bio in the Troy University football media guide. He isn’t in there. In fact, the former walk-on from Opelika quietly left the team at the end of training camp in 2018 – last season.
“Financial reasons,” he explained. “School is very expensive … and it was just a lot of stress on me and my family. If knew if I wasn’t going to be doing too much on the field, I could go home on weekends, work and I decided I could still be around the guys, the team, with strength and conditioning.