There was a time when Carson Schwesinger had zero stars, zero college scholarship offers, seemingly zero hope to amount to much in football.
His high school coach pitched UCLA counterpart Chip Kelly on taking Schwesinger as a consolation prize after the Bruins lost out on fellow Oaks Christian linebacker Ethan Calvert, who was headed to Utah.
“I went up to coach Kelly and I said, ‘You might want to consider this kid Carson Schwesinger as a walk-on — he’s a poor man’s Ethan Calvert,’” Charles Collins told The Times last fall.