BEREA, Ohio — Jowon Briggs took his first collegiate snaps at Virginia in 2019. It was about a seven-hour drive from his hometown in Cincinnati, but it was a school he committed to over other options, including Ohio State and Cincinnati.
Married with a baby, Briggs aimed to provide for his new family. He knew he had to dedicate himself to the game with the goal of making it into the NFL, but the immediate need was still present. So Briggs got to work away from the gridiron as well. At 6 a.m., Briggs would be out the door for practice. Then he would lift, which would see him in the building anywhere from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. A 30-minute drive from campus to Blue Ash, Ohio, Briggs would then clock in for his shift at Chick'nCone, where he would work the closing shift, getting home after 10 p.m. to make dinner for the family and breakfast for himself.
"My kids are my kids. They like to do what they like to do, so I'm freaking wrangling them. They're running around acting crazy," Briggs said."Mind you, they go to bed at 7:30 promptly. So they're running around, my daughter and son are wrestling, so I'm pulling them apart and I get that call on my phone. I heard everybody sitting down, my wife's holding my youngest son and trying to hold them back at the same time. So it was a lot of fun that night.
"Everybody has their 'why,'" Briggs said."It's a really big thing to love football, but it's a little bit different when you have somebody else depending on you, and I got four people depending on me immediately. So that kind of amps up the urgency to things and just really makes me take advantage of every single second out there."
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