Through five years of steady ascent, Reynaldo Flores has been one of the feel-good stories of UTEP football, the local who started as a walk-on and turned himself into a major player.
His story has another season to write, but a few years behind him it's all happening again.
As UTEP's spring enters its fourth of five weeks, a player making a bigger and bigger impression is Rey's younger brother Lucas. The third-year freshman receiver from Ysleta High isn't the flashiest player on the roster, just someone who approaches the game the right way and manages to catch almost everything thrown his direction.