Once you’ve followed the NFL long enough, you learn that every player who reaches the league has at least one high school story that made them a legend. Caleb Williams threw a Hail Mary to win the state championship. Brian Urlacher had 12 TD receptions and six TD returns on defense in the same season. There are so many great stories. Yet Colston Loveland might have one of the best. His former head coach, Cameron Anderson, shared this week on the CHGO Bears podcast.
It came during his junior year in 2020. Gooding High School was battling Kimberly for the conference championship. In a back-and-forth thriller, the two teams traded punches to a 28-28 tie, leading to overtime. Kimberly then scored a touchdown on their opening possession. Gooding needed a TD. Conventional wisdom dictated they get the ball to Loveland, who’d caught 69 passes for 816 yards and six touchdowns.
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