Who is LSU football’s new guy? Damien Lewis is son to an imprisoned father who escaped impoverished Canton

lsu football report tigers

Damien Dozier, Damien Lewis’ father, missed his son’s formative years while behind bars: those middle school days of Damien stumbling upon football in eighth grade because he “liked to hit things,” his mother says; the high school days, on a team of 26 players, when Damien completed his three-year career with 11 wins and zero scholarship offers; at junior college, where Damien developed into a 320-pound mauling offensive guard who drew the interest of dozens of college coaches.

Damien Dozier has missed all of this, convicted on drug-related charges in the summer of 2011.

He will not miss the next stage of his son’s career — the one that started four months ago at LSU. 

Click here to continue reading. #GeauxTigers 

Leave a Reply