It was not football that first put Chase Cord on Boise State’s radar — it was dodgeball.
Cord will finally get a shot to play this fall in a game for the Broncos, five years after they first noticed him.
It all started when former assistant Scott Huff was recruiting an offensive lineman at Sunrise Mountain High in Peoria, Ariz. Talking to the Mustangs’ football coach, the pair watched a physical education class, and one guy caught Huff’s eye.
“I just kept going, ‘Coach, who is this kid? He’s killing dudes,’” Huff said. “He had the arm strength, you could see him single-handedly dominating dodgeball, catching the ball, you could tell he was really athletic.