Whenever Dashawn Stovall steps onto a football field, he is fueled by flesh, bone and a full tank of emotion.
He carries the pigskin and makes tackles for Thomas Jefferson High School, but also for his slain brother, Davonte, who was murdered in 2019 in a shooting on Selden Street.
With Rashaud Cherry’s steady hands on the steering wheel, Thomas Jefferson High School has its GPS set on “all the way to the top.”
The Vikings have taken off so fast you wonder if they’ve left patches of burned rubber along Richmond’s West End roadways.