In All American, it’s been Spencer’s life long dream to play at a D1 school. He knows that’s how he’ll get a shot at playing professional football. However, his injury after getting shot was a stumbling block that nearly took him out of the running. Both physically and mentally, the pain he carried from the shooting could have ended his football career.
Still, Spencer worked hard and last season he got an offer from Toledo State to play for their program. It was an ecstatic moment for Spencer and a breath of relief for a teen who’d truly been put through the ringer.
Life, however, was not done testing Spencer as unbeknownst to him, while he was in the middle of a state championship game, his best friend was fighting for her life.
The All American season 4 premiere, “Survival of the Fittest,” opens with Spencer standing by a grave and the events of that night are recounted via flashback. He’d had everything before he’d learned about Coop’s shooting. As he says, he’d gotten the girl (re: Olivia Baker), earned his spot on a D1 school’s team, and was once again at the state championship fighting for a win for Crenshaw.
Of course, Spencer went running to the hospital when he was told Coop was at death’s door. No one would have expected anything different. Family over everything is Spencer’s modus operandi. It’s why the idea of moving to Toledo, Ohio troubles him in the face of Coop’s medical emergency.
Does Spencer decide to go to Toledo State in the All American season 4 premiere?
Spoilers ahead for the All American season 4 premiere
What’s true about Spencer, which is both an admirable trait and a frustrating one, is that he’s always going to do what he believes is best for others even if it means taking on more responsibility than he should.
In “Survival of the Fittest,” he nearly doesn’t sign his contract because Coop is in a coma and he feels like he should be around for his family and friends. Mind, he still hasn’t finished high school and he’s making a major life decision about where he needs to be as if Coop doesn’t have a support system outside of himself.
As noble as his sacrifice would be, Spencer would have given up on his dream despite knowing it’s not at all what Coop would want for him. His loved ones remind him of this by staging an intervention. They’re kind and understanding about it but still push him to make the best decision for himself not the decision that he feels he should make because Coop is in the hospital.
Billy, however, bitterly tells it to Spencer straight with no chaser. Spencer always feels like he has to be the one to save everyone. He’s got a savior complex, and it’s reared its head over and over again to his detriment at times. According to Billy, Spencer’s fear isn’t that his loved ones will fall apart without him, it’s that they won’t.
Granted, Billy’s still stewing over Spencer helping Jordan get ready to play football again in spite of the doctor telling him he needed to rest, but he wasn’t entirely wrong.
Spencer does need to learn that it isn’t all on him. Perhaps that’s the lesson he’ll be learning in the rest of All American season 4. We’ll have to wait and see but, thankfully, we didn’t have to wait to see Spencer make his decision. After Coop wakes up, Spencer does sign his contract to go to Toledo State putting him one step closer to playing D1 football like he’s dreamed of doing for years.
New episodes of All American season 4 air Mondays at 8 p.m. ET on The CW.
All American season 4 spoilers: Does Spencer decide to go to Toledo State?
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