How UTEP turned its biggest weakness at the cornerback position into a strength

Buy PhotoCamp Ruidoso is in its fourth year, and in the life of a football team, that’s a full generation.

When the sun first rose on a UTEP football team here in 2015, the Miners were in the unenviable, almost desperate position of starting two freshmen cornerbacks in Nik Needham, a redshirt in his second year with the team, and Kalon Beverly, who was just out of high school.

The biggest target in college football is worn by a freshman corner, and the Miners had two of them when they debuted in front of 68,000 people at No. 18 Arkansas.

The Miners have two all-conference seniors now, with 55 starts between them, and a backup in junior Justin Rogers who has seven more career starts.

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