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Benardrick McKinney's Mississippi State journey

Digital Media Reporter
www.HailState.com

What would you even do with him?

The tall, lanky quarterback and punter at Rosa Fort High School in Tunica, Miss., had the look of person whose body couldn’t quite keep up with itself. Benardrick McKinney was 6’5” and just squeaked over 200 pounds on the scale.

His frame and position had him in football no man’s land.

With a population hovering around 1,000 people, everyone in town knew McKinney, the do-everything athlete for Rosa Fort who they were sure would be a star one day, and really he already was in their minds.