TCU defender Tre'Vius Hodges-Tomlinson not fazed by famous last name, lack of size

FORT WORTH – Tre’Vius Hodges-Tomlinson believes in love at first sight because he experienced it with a football when he was a baby. The famous family story goes like this – it was picture day, and the TCU defender was a nine-month-old baby who wouldn’t stop crying. The professional photographer tasked with snapping the memories had an idea – give the baby a ball. But not just any ball, a football. 

“They gave that football to me, and my mother said that I didn’t make a sound from then on,” Hodges-Tomlinson remembered with a smile as we chatted on TCU’s practice facility on Tuesday afternoon. “She knew from then on that I would be a football player.”