In a week dominated by talk of the upcoming college football season, Texas safety Michael Taaffe brought something different to SEC Media Days in Atlanta: perspective. Wearing a burnt orange tie stitched with the initials of the 27 victims at Camp Mystic,

Walk-on and All-American Michael Taaffe was in the spotlight at SEC Media Days. The senior spoke about everything from returning to UT to challenges.

Texas DB Michael Taaffe is wearing a tie at SEC Media Days with the initials of the campers & counselors who died at Camp Mystic in the Texas floods🧡 (via @levonwhitt_tv) https://t.co/pEVRDURnuN pic.twitter.com/Tz7Dz2Fshs