83. Joe Dean Davenport: From Farm to Football and Back

The Hog Pod with Bo Mattingly

Sport & Story

Arkansas, Hogs, Sports, Razorbacks

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2020

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

For some, football is a way of life. For others, it’s just what they do, not who they are. And for Joe Dean Davenport, he’s always been a rancher at heart. He didn’t really get into football until junior high, and didn’t even really know the rules until high school. For Davenport, it was more something to do than anything else. As it turned out, though, he was pretty good. He started getting recruiting letters and invited on visits. But Davenport only had eyes for the Razorbacks and a campus he grew up less than 30 minutes away from. In his time at Arkansas, he would turn into an NFL-caliber player. And even though there’s one game he still hasn’t watched, his time with the Hogs was a success. So why, when presented with an opportunity to play at the next level, would he simply walk away, only to come back to the NFL a year later? And how has his life taken him full circle, from the farm to the NFL and back?

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0:00.0	To my left is a trail Owens and Garris and Hurst is right up here.
0:07.4	We break the huddle with these guys, right?
0:09.4	Yeah.
0:10.4	So I go up to line and I'm running like a 10 yard outright well Garcia throws it to me and
0:14.2	the villas you you catch it turn up and I'm you know everybody comes together so
0:18.4	there's Jerry Rice Trellow ones Gersen Harris and Garcia we're all running up the sidelines. I'm like,
0:24.6	Jerry Rice, man, this is the guy's the greatest ever. I'm like, why did he throw it to me. Welcome into the Hog Pot. I'm Bo Mattingly and this episode is made possible by our friends
0:46.1	at Core Brewing Company. First Security Bank, Seras and Resort and Lindsay Golf.
0:53.0	Football players come from a wide variety of backgrounds.
0:57.0	Most of them grow up loving the game.
1:00.0	But for former razorback and NFL tight end,
1:03.2	Jodine Davenport, farming has always been his first love.
1:08.0	You know, deadhead, cattle and chickens at two laying in houses and all I know.
1:14.0	It's all I've done.
1:15.0	Davenport didn't get into football until junior high
1:18.0	and didn't even know the rules until high school.
1:21.0	Wide open is Joe D Dean Davenport.
1:26.1	For him, it was more of a hobby.
1:29.1	But as it turned out, he was pretty good
1:31.3	and started getting recruited and invited on visits which he mostly
1:36.1	declined. I told my buddy I was like tell us once we come over diamond reo is playing after the
1:40.6	game he's like oh that'd be awesome we haven haven't been to a concert and it's free. So I'll call them back and something. I'll come over for a recruiting visit, but it was only to watch. Diamond Reno. Yeah. He would eventually end up becoming a razorback, 30 minutes away from home, playing for a coach who also love farming as much as football.
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