In this transfer-heavy era, stories about an athlete finding success at a second (or third or fourth or…) collegiate stop are abundant. Accordingly, not all of them garner the same amount of notice.
It wasn’t necessarily “SportsCenter” fare, for instance, when Southeastern Louisiana quarterback Cole Kelley recently nabbed the Walter Payton Award, the most prestigious individual award for smaller college football programs that used to make up Division I-AA.
The expat Razorback quarterback, occasionally dogged for his inaccuracy at Arkansas, completed just shy of 70 percent of his passes for a nation-leading 2,662 yards in the FCS’ unconventional spring season.