INDIANAPOLIS – Jason Mohns began with a caveat, wholly uninterested in carving out a niche as the Mel Kiper, Jr. of third-grade prospect scouting.
“If anybody tells you a nine-year-old is going to play in the NFL,” Mohns said, “they’re crazy.”
But more than a decade ago, Mohns was the coach of a Pop Warner team in Scottsdale called the Argonauts. One day, a small kid with a big head named Christian Kirk joined the squad, and Mohns quickly realized a generational talent might be zig-zagging in front of him.
“He was playing against kids that were two years older than him, and you could tell back then that he was just different,” said Mohns, now the head coach of Scottsdale Saguaro High School.