He apparently was an absolute demon in intramural flag football.
But it wasn't enough for him. He still had an itch for the real thing.
After all, Jeremiah Stovall was a first-team Super-State selection at Creighton Prep in 2014.
Nevertheless, he attracted scant interest from college programs. Nebraska never contacted him about being even a walk-on. But in the fall of 2015, he came to Lincoln anyway, enrolling in classes as a regular college student -- albeit with strangely strong prowess in intramurals.
That October, though, he caught wind of a tryout being held on campus.