Brandon Thomas wants to play on a broken foot today.
This explains everything about the hulking high school middle linebacker—but it doesn’t say exactly what you might think it says about him.
Thomas is the type who elicits fear, who loves contact and delivers jarring blows. He’s big—6' 2", 227 pounds—and he’s hunting for college scholarships. But as he drives to the first game of his final high school season, on the first Friday in September, he hasn’t yet transitioned into beast mode. He slows to let another car pass with a smile and a wave. He asks, “Should I turn the music down?”
