How Trevon Flowers' football career is the result of a random decision - atozsportsnashville.com

Tennessee Vols defensive back Trevon Flowers never dreamed of playing college football.

Flowers grew up playing baseball. He started t-ball at four years old and eventually played travel baseball as a teenager.

The Georgia native barely played football as a kid, spending only one season as a running back when he was 10 years old.

For Flowers, it was all about baseball and getting a scholarship to play in college.

And he got that chance.

Flowers, who was a shortstop, originally signed with Kentucky to play baseball.

But he ended up getting out of his national letter of intent, which allowed him to sign with the Vols during the 2018 recruiting cycle.

So why the change of heart for the Georgia native?

It all comes down to a random decision that Flowers made after his junior year of high school.

Flowers wanted to win a state championship and he knew it likely wasn’t going to happen playing baseball or basketball.

The dynamic safety recently appeared on Tennessee’s “The Slice” podcast and detailed his decision to play football as a senior at Tucker High School.

“I’ll be honest, the school I went to, we were decent at baseball and basketball, but I knew we weren’t going to win a state championship,” said Flowers. “The year before, my junior year, the football team went to the state championship and lost. But we had all the players coming back. And I knew everybody. We had all went to school together. So they kind of really begged me to come out. You might as well come out and play, this and that. So I went out there the last week of summer.”

Flowers ended up choosing football over baseball because of the scholarship situation (baseball scholarships don’t cover as much as football scholarships).

“First of all, football scholarships and baseball scholarships are way different,” explained Flowers.

Flowers said he initially wanted to play quarterback at Tucker, but he was moved to safety.

And the rest, as he said, is history.

Flowers battled through injuries during his first two seasons at Tennessee (in which he was limited to 13 total games). But the talented athlete bounced back in 2020, playing in all 10 games while compiling 62 total tackles (second on the team).

Featured image via Tennessee Athletic Communications/Knoxville News Sentinel-USA TODAY Sports

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