It might sound cliché to say that an incoming freshman football player wouldn’t be where he is today without his high school coaches, but that’s literally the case for tight end Gage Wilcox.
Wilcox started playing football when he was around 4 years old. Because he was always bigger than most of the kids his age, he was forced to play against kids three or four years older than him in youth leagues. The challenge of going against older, more physically mature kids overwhelmed him when he was about 11, and he quit the sport.
For the next four years or so, baseball was his sport of choice.