One moment, Blake Nelson had the perfect angle to stop a bubble screen for a loss near the sideline. The next, he was laying on the turf, subject to the full Christian McCaffrey Experience.
“He put his outside foot in the ground, cut, and completely broke my ankles,” recalled Nelson, then Arapahoe’s star safety. “I ended up falling down, rolled over, and watched him run away from the rest of our defense for a touchdown. I had never experienced something like that.
“He was like when you make one of those custom Madden players and you turn all their attributes all the way up.