Recent years have seen a quiet giant residing in Kidd Brewer Stadium. It is underrated, unheralded and often underestimated. It calls itself “The Legion of Boone” and it is the secondary of the Mountaineers’.
The defensive backfield has spent the past few years as one of the top units in the Sun Belt conference and is a threatening group on the national stage. Last season, sophomore cornerback Clifton Duck and then-senior Mondo Williams both found themselves on the Sun Belt’s All-Conference first-team with senior defensive back AJ Howard receiving an honorable mention.
Duck also walked away from the season with the conference’s freshman of the year award, as he started every game as a true freshman for the Mountaineers.