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Ask FIU Coach Butch Davis about new graduate transfer tight end Pharoah McKever and he playfully says, "Oh, the little 5-9 tight end".
Of course, one look at McKever and you know the FIU coach is kidding because the Panthers tight end is a 6-6, 260-pound towering, athletic player with the wingspan of a pterodactyl.
"How about that target," a smiling Davis said of McKever after Sunday morning practice. "You got the wingspan of about 12 feet. It's kind of like trying to throw it out there to [former Houston Rockets center] Akeem Olajuwon.