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By Carey Reeder | Managing Editor

Isabella High School’s Garrett Price battled through injury his senior year and ended it by signing a scholarship to play college football at Huntingdon College on April 8. Price suffered a leg injury that derailed his initial plans for his final year in the Mustangs’ program, but it turned into a blessing as silver linings showed through.

“It was a tough year, but a rewarding year for him,” Isabella head coach Tate Leonard said. “I am so glad it ended with this. I am so happy for him.”

On the opening drive of the 2025 Isabella football season, Price sustained a significant injury that would go on to sideline him for weeks.

“At first it was really heartbreaking,” Price said. “I prayed about it a lot and God got me through it. I knew when I came back it would be different than being fully healthy. I had a lot of support from my parents, coaches and teammates, and that is what really helped through all of it.”

Price’s injury left a void in the backfield and in the linebacker room with the senior playing on both sides of the ball. He took the time at practices, which he still came to while coming back from injury, to teach the guys who were coming into his spot how he plays the game.

“For someone who loves football and is all in as he is, you hated to see (that injury) as a coach,” Leonard said. “God knows what he is doing, and him helping us coach I believe will lead him into coaching, so that was a blessing.

Before his injury, Price did not have a passion to coach. However, all of the help at practices, breaking down film and helping the coaching staff get prepared for the next opponent has inspired him to have a career in coaching after his playing days.

“Football is something I love, and they say if you do something you love you will never work a day in your life, so that is what I really want to get into,” Price said.

Price visited Huntingdon last summer for a camp and loved the campus and coaching staff. The college felt like home for him more than anywhere, and Price will join a handful of other football players from high schools in Chilton County already on the team.

Price is poised for a move to defensive line when he gets to Huntingdon. He got some reps at the position some his senior year, and defensive line is a position Price could excel at with his attributes and skills. Leonard said Price’s work ethic is contagious, and others at Huntingdon will see that and feed off of it like his Isabella teammates did.

“(Our coaching staff) has definitely have shown me the type of man I want to grow up and be,” Price said. “It is not just about football (around here), and I know if I had a question about football coach Leonard would talk to me, but if I have a question about life I know I can talk to any of these coaches and they’ll be there for me.”

Price signed his letter of intent alongside fellow Isabella senior and Huntingdon College signee Austin Porter who signed to play baseball at the school.