Jaren Wilkey/BYU
Ben Cahoon doesn’t care if the receivers he coaches can jump over the moon or outrace trains. If they can’t run routes, get open and make catches, they might as well sell hot dogs in the stands.
He’s asked BYU receivers to catch 10,000 balls this summer. He wants their reaction time whittled down to the most precise responses possible. Cahoon is looking for some hard wiring between eyes, hands and brains. Of his pass catchers, he wants hands and fingers used to snare footballs traveling through the air, eyes used to draw a bead on them as they float, brains judging velocity and trajectory, and the nervous system wired to make the intersect.