Our Bowl was a loss, as most here thought it would be, because of the players that left.
But because of the players that stayed it was an exciting game, better than most believed it could be. And the side story of our new, inexperienced QB gained us extra National media.
We got a month of extra practice for the team and found a surprise player.
In 2009 Darius Carey had a standout true freshman season racking up 509 receiving yards. Not sure what the record was before that but here are the top true freshmen seasons in terms of receiving yards since, by my research:
378 - Miles Coleman 2024
363 - Landon Sides 2023
295 - Wyatt Young 2024
281 - Jaelon Darden 2017
253 - Carlos Harris 2012
240 - Deonte Simpson 2019
151 - Darvin Kidsy 2013
146 - Tyler Wilson 2016
97 - Rico Bussey 2016
These guys on our roster are in really good company being atop some real ballers on this list. NFL guys, 1,000 yard seasons, etc.
Two takeaways here are that you can make an impact early here, especially at receiver, and that even in the transfer portal it’s still important to sign top high school talent as they seems to be the guys more likely to remain loyal when they otherwise would have good stock in the transfer portal/NIL market.
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