SOUTH BEND — This isn’t the first time wide receiver Kris Mitchell of Notre Dame football has linked up with a talented transfer quarterback.
Six years before joining forces with former Duke quarterback Riley Leonard, Mitchell welcomed a skinny junior named Carson Beck to Mandarin High School in Jacksonville, Fla. Then committed to Alabama, Beck helped the lowly Mustangs go from 2-8 to 11-4 and the first Florida state championship in any major sport in school history.
Knocking off unbeaten Miami Columbus 37-35 in the 2018 Class 8A title game in Orlando, the “Miracle Mustangs” rode 329 passing yards and five touchdowns from Beck. Seven of his 25 completions went to Mitchell, who totaled 118 receiving yards in his high school finale.
Now entering his second year as the starting quarterback for top-ranked Georgia, Beck is a first-team preseason All-American and a Heisman Trophy frontrunner. One of his primary rivals for those national honors this year could be Leonard, who at 6-foot-4 and 216 pounds is the same listed height as Beck and just four pounds lighter.
“It’s going to be crazy,” said Mitchell, a graduate transfer from Miami’s Florida International. “There are similarities as far as leadership and how they take on the role of being a quarterback and how they feel like generals of the offense. I love that about Riley, and I (saw) that in Carson as well back in high school.”
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Despite being the No. 3 receiving option behind Demario Douglas, now with the NFL’s New England Patriots after starring at Liberty University, Mitchell caught 11 touchdown passes as a prep senior.
Beck threw for 3,546 yards and 39 scores in 2018 after transferring in from the smaller, private Providence School of…
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Publish date : 2024-08-19 22:44:24
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