UT player describes emotional meeting with arrested players

UT player describes emotional meeting with arrested players

KNOXVILLE (WATE) -- As Tennessee's football team heads to Oxford for Saturday's game with Ole Miss, the three players arrested for an alleged attempted robbery on Cumberland Avenue continue to make headlines in our area.

But not all of the talk is negative.

Freshman walk-on punter Josh Davis talked to anchor Kristin Farley on 6 News at 5:30 Friday and described how he and fellow team members have seen some positive things come from the arrests of three players.

He described a meeting Thursday night of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes that ended in a reconciliation with two of the arrested players.

"We usually have our meetings every Thursday at 9:00 in this room by our chaplain, Roger Woods. Last night, we had been praying all day for the guys, just for the team and families," Davis said.

Davis told 6 News the meeting ran long, and just as it was about to end one of the arrested players, Mike Edwards, walked into the room.

"We got around him and hugged on him and loved on him, like our team does. We are a family. You could tell he knew what he did was wrong. God led him, we feel God led him to the meeting because he needed to take care of it."

Edwards "made his peace with God," Davis said.

Then the group turned their thoughts to the other player who was not still in jail, Janzen Jackson.

"We knew he was in the dorms and we decided, me, myself, Chris Walker, Anthony Anderson, and Bryce Brown decided we needed to bring him down too. At 11:30, we came back and still had 30 to 40 college students who either had tests the next day, practice, or getting ready for a game, and we were waiting on him. And surrounded him and ended up both them ended up on their knees, praying and crying out for forgiveness."

Davis said there were no words spoken specifically of the incident that led to the players' arrest.

"They made a mistake and they knew about it," Davis said. "And they made their peace, which is what they needed to do. We talked about everyone is going to throw it in their face and make sure they know what they did, but they took care of it with the person they needed to. We feel they are forgiven."