University of Detroit Jesuit is generally known as a basketball school. After all, the Cubs won the 2016 Class A state championship and produced that year’s Mr. Basketball in the state of Michigan, Cassius Winston.
Elijah Collins, a member of that state championship team, nearly gave up football for basketball. But after taking his sophomore season off the gridiron, he had a desire to get back to football as a junior.
He did so in a big way, leading the Cubs to their second straight Division 2 playoff appearance – just the second time in program history they’ve made it to the postseason at least two consecutive years – in his first year of varsity football.