MURFREESBORO, Tenn. — When Cherokee Bluff High School took the field in their inaugural season in the fall of 2018, head coach Tommy Jones said that he started an offensive line that featured four freshmen, none of whom could bench press 100 pounds.
Mateo Guevara was on that offensive line, standing about 5-foot-11, maybe 185 pounds as a roster of freshmen and sophomores that took their licks early on, going 3-17 over his freshman and sophomore seasons. But Guevara stayed the course, bought into the program and, with some growth spurts and hard work of his own, reaped the rewards.