“Holy sh**, who is this guy?”
That’s what Baltimore Ravens tight end Charlie Kolar remembered thinking during Iowa State’s fall camp in 2018. It was Kolar’s second year in the program after redshirting his freshman season, and he was looking forward to seeing some game action for the first time.
But on that hot summer day in Ames, Iowa, Kolar watched as an 18-year-old from Arizona executed a play with ease and skirted by even the Clones’ best defenders.
“I remember one play, [we ran] a speed option, and he hit a crazy fake pitch spin into the end zone, juked the two best players on our defense, and we were like, ‘holy sh**, who is this guy?