MURFREESBORO, Tenn. — I'Tavius Mathers only played one full season for Middle Tennessee, a 2016 Redshirt Senior campaign after transferring back home from Ole Miss. But that 2016 season reads like a perfect resume for a job application anywhere in football.
First Team All-C-USA, named permanent team captain by his teammates and Ironman award winner from the strength and conditioning staff, the first player in NCAA FBS history to have 1,500 yards rushing, 500 yards receiving and 60 catches in the same season (not to mention his 20 combined touchdowns that season).
But it was what came after, with several years of coaching high school football at both his alma mater, Blackman High School, as well as Wilson Central, that has made Mathers an intriguing addition to the MT coaching staff as a graduate assistant.