Two of the country's top aerial acrobats will spend their Saturdays this fall effortlessly twisting and contorting, sprinting and leaping, catching and scoring. Colorado State's Rashard Higgins and Colorado's Nelson Spruce are two of the best wide receivers in college football, as evidenced by the eye-popping numbers they put up a season ago.
By season's end, they'll probably own every significant receiving record at their school. But on a recent scorching summer day on the Metro State campus in Denver, they looked downright, well, human. As it turns out, the balletic poses of a receiver don't come quite as easily during a photo shoot as they do on game day.