Aaron Davis' story for those who do not know or have forgotten...

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Back in the fall of 2010, as a sophomore cornerback/wide receiver at Luella High School in Locust Grove, he was drawing interest from major-college recruiters. Georgia was among a number of SEC and ACC schools that sent coaches to visit him. But in Luella’s 2011 spring game, he tore the ACL in his left knee, leading to surgery that sidelined him for all of his junior season. And then he reinjured the same knee, necessitating a second ACL surgery, costing him almost all of his senior season. He made it back onto the field just in time to play wide receiver in the last game of the season, the last game of his high school career. He caught 11 passes for 149 yards and two touchdowns in that game, by the way.

But by then, the major-college recruiters were long gone, and Davis had little interest in pursuing opportunities to play at the Division II or III level.

“I felt like if I was being recruited to be SEC/ACC (before the injuries), I didn’t really want to cut myself short,” Davis said. “I felt like I should step up to the challenge and walk on to a school. … I thought I might as well go to a place I want to be.”

So Davis contacted Georgia, which he said had “always been my favorite college,” and was told he could join the Bulldogs as a “preferred” walk-on.

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