still in disbelief,'' Thomas says. "I think we all thought we were going to go to college and the NFL. That was the plan."    In 2010, Thomas was Armwood's next big thing. The man. That dude. He was part of the Big 3, with Bailey and McQuay, arguably the best players in Tampa Bay for their age. "Ronnie was real good,'' says McQuay III, one of the country's most sought-after safeties. "He was fast, could catch everything. He had more colleges calling him than I did." Then, on a misty Saturday afternoon at the Orlando Citrus Bowl in the Class 4A state championship game, quarterback Josh Grady dropped back and threw a screen pass to Thomas. A split second later his world changed forever. "Hip to foot, my leg just fell asleep," Thomas says. After catching the ball and juking two defenders, with nothing but green grass in front of him, Thomas stepped on the side of his foot. His body followed, crashing down over the knee. He remembers this feeling of drowning; Bailey standing over him, crying and yelling for the trainers; Callahan laying over him and covering his mangled leg so no one else had to see it -- "It was bad, it was real bad," Callahan says -- and his parents leaving the stands to come to him.    This is usually the part of the story where the young football player fights his way back from a torn ACL, MCL and