Deante Burton caught the ball and pushed forward. The junior receiver was two yards away from a touchdown, close enough to hear individual fans behind the end zone shouting.
If he could get past one defender, he was in. So he fought with everything he had, desperately trying to break a tackle. Receiver and corner wrestled for what felt like minutes until Burton fell to the ground at the 1.
He missed a touchdown by the smallest of margins – again.
“Sometimes we talk about me being cursed,” Burton said with a chuckle after Kansas State’s spring football game Saturday.