The most prolific quarterback, running back and wide receiver trio in FIU Panthers history formed one week into the 2014 fall training camp.
Quarterback Alex McGough, a three-star recruit from Tampa Gaither, and Alex Gardner, a two-star running back from Jacksonville Raines, had just arrived as freshmen.
But the third member of this “triplet”, two-star freshman Thomas Owens, was playing safety that first week of camp.
In high school, at Boynton Beach’s Atlantic Community, Owens had primarily been the starting quarterback and safety. But as fate would have it, his time as an FIU safety only lasted a week.