HoustonTexans.com is taking "a look at each position on the roster as it sits today, starting with the Wide Receiver Balance Sheet." Dartmouth grad/Baylor transfer Drew Estrada '20 is one three rookies among the 12 players the site discusses.
Regarding Estrada, the site has this to say (LINK):
Estrada returned home (originally from Argyle, TX) to Texas for his final year of college football after starring in the Ivy League at Dartmouth for four years. He was a top 15 WR all-time at Dartmouth before deciding on Baylor for his final season in 2021. When he got to Baylor, he fit right in, starting five games for the 2021 Big 12 champions. He was third on the team with 367 receiving yards and fourth in receptions (30). He has jack-of-all-trades ability and some serious juice down the field. Dartmouth and Baylor both found a way to use him in different ways in the running game as well, given his slipperiness and open field running ability.
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EasternPAFootball has a story headlined, Conrad Weiser Among Nation’s First Football Programs To Use MVP Sprint that includes this (LINK):
“Protecting athletes is critical and the very reason MVP|SPRINT was developed. It’s a solution that will allow youth, high school, collegiate, and professional players to fully execute a tackle on a non–human device and it eliminates player-on-player contact during drills while maintaining the level of challenge associated with tackling a live person,” said Dartmouth Football Coach, Buddy Teevens, whose Ivy League program was among the first in the country to eliminate full-contact and use the MVP.
In 2014, Teevens challenged and inspired a group of his student-athletes from Dartmouth/Thayer School of Engineering to develop a mobile training device that simulated human motion and performance. Months later, the first MVP prototype made its debut as the first moving-non human target at Dartmouth football team camp’s opening day.
Interestingly, the only quarterback in Dartmouth's incoming recruiting class, Logan Klitsch, is a product of that Conrad Weiser High School program.
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Speaking of the MVP, a site called Destination Athlete, which bills itself as being dedicated to "Building Better Communities Through Athletes" just posted this:
And this:
There's a whole series of 30-second videos featuring the MVP on the site HERE.
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Today's issue of The Dartmouth has a story headlined, Some People Call it a Fly-Over State, I Call it Home; Reflections on coming to Dartmouth from the Midwest. The author writes about . . . (LINK):
. . . how sparse Midwesterners truly are at this school, to the point where people probably couldn’t even place many states in that region on a map.
Whether or not that's true is for others to decide. Here's one thing that is categorically true: All three of Dartmouth's recently elected football captains are from the Midwest.
• Quarterback Nick Howard is from Green Bay, Wis.
• Safety Quinten Arello is from Kansas City
• Defensive lineman Shane Cokes is from Dayton, Ohio
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| "Wiffle" in Colorado in 2020. |
EXTRA POINT
Our VW Bus Whisperer called yesterday to inform us that we could pick up our 1984 Westfalia pop-top camper van on Friday. The "Westy" had broken down a few weeks ago, not long after I pulled it out of winter storage, and fortunately it was a minor fix. These wonderful old vehicles are prone to mechanical issues and it's safe to say I'm not what you would call mechanically inclined so we leave it to the Whisperer to keep "Wiffle" going. ;-)
My conversation with the Bus Whisperer went something like this:
VW guy: "I know what was most important for you was that we look it over and do what we can so you can be confident.".
Me (sheepishly): "I'm probably not the kind of person who should own something like this."
VW guy: "The only thing that matters is you love it."
Well said, VW guy. Well said.
