When high school junior Ron Davis, an exceptional football player, moves in next door to varsity hopeful freshman Sonny Manning they team up to bring Jackson High to its first ever State Playoff. The school and the small town of Bay City is elated with the prospect of a State Championship, but during the holiday break tragedy strikes causing Sonny's team mates, Jackson High and Bay City to turn against Sonny. With no friends and a seemingly hopeless future Sonny must face the hardest decision of his life. Can he trust the one person who befriends him, a person who didn't travel the conventional path? In the darkest despair is there really any light? Jersey Twenty-Two is the story Sonny Manning writes of a boy with a dream and how he pursued that dream in spite of seemingly insurmountable odds.