About me

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I’m Brysen Davies, a football athlete at Marshall University and a civil engineering major. This site is my corner of the internet where you can get to know me beyond the scoreboard: what I’m working toward, what I’m learning, and what I’m into off the field. Football is my passion, and I take a lot of pride in the work that comes with it, but academics are equally important to me. I approach school the same way I approach the game, with discipline, consistency, and a mindset that growth is earned, not given. Civil engineering challenges me to think differently, solve problems, and stay locked in, and I love that it pushes me to keep improving in a whole different way.

When I’m not training, competing, or studying, you’ll usually find me outdoors hunting or fishing depending on the season. I love to bass fish, and I love hunting whitetail and boar down in the swamps of Georgia. Being outside is my reset button, but it’s also where I sharpen my mindset.

Boar hunting has a way of testing you no matter the conditions, cold and wet or that Georgia heat when it’s hot and humid and everything feels heavier. It’s mind over matter either way. Sometimes it’s being on your hands and knees in the mud, reading the ground for tracks. Sometimes it’s pushing through sweat and thick air, staying patient and locked in when your body wants to quit. Out there, your senses take over. You’re tuned into the wind, the brush, the water, and the scent that tells you they’re close, and you learn to stay steady when the pressure rises.

That same edge shows up in how I approach football and school. I’m always hunting something, an extra rep, a better step, a cleaner play, a higher standard. In the classroom, it’s the same mentality, staying focused, putting in the hours, and learning the details that make the difference. Whether it’s under the lights on the field, working through a tough assignment, or out in the wood line, I’m at my best when there’s purpose behind what I’m doing. Football teaches me how to compete. Engineering teaches me how to build and problem solve. The outdoors teaches me how to stay grounded. All of it pushes me forward.

Football has also given me a platform, and I care about what I do with it. I’m proud of where I’m from, Newnan, Georgia, and I’m grateful for where I am now, Huntington, West Virginia at Marshall. To me, those aren’t just two places on a map. Newnan is my foundation where I learned how to work, how to carry myself, and how to represent something bigger than me. Huntington is my growth where I’m being challenged at a higher level, learning how to lead, and building my future.

My goal is to connect both places by carrying the best of Newnan with me to Huntington, my mindset, my values, and my work ethic, and bringing what I learn in Huntington back home so it can matter for the next generation. I want to use my platform as a collegiate athlete to make a real impact in both communities: supporting youth sports, showing up for local events, volunteering when I can, and being someone younger athletes can look at and believe, “I can do that too.”

At the end of the day, I’m not just representing Marshall or Newnan separately, I’m representing the connection between them. I want my impact to be bigger than football, and I want to make both places proud by how I work, how I lead, and how I give back.