When he gets the ball, Brother Rice’s Jameson Davis creates a sound and fury all his own.

The junior running back has a musician’s natural feel for rhythm and touch — how to build up a sense of joy, discovery and self-expression. It’s something that he gets from his father.

“My dad’s a bandleader who has been in music his whole life,” Davis said. “Everybody in my family are either athletes or musicians — or both. I always had music around me. I’d walk around with a little staff in my hand, pretending to be a drum major.

“Ever since I got here, my focus now is on football.”

That focus showed Saturday night as Davis ran for 106 yards and scored two touchdowns in the Crusaders’ 42-18 win over St. Charles North in a Class 7A state quarterfinal game in Chicago.

Davis scored TDs on runs o

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