Chris Carson has been hurdling human beings for a decade.
But he was not the first. On Sept. 6, 2008, the 13-year-old Atlanta native watched as Georgia running back Knowshon Moreno busted around the right edge, cut back into the open field and leaped entirely over a flailing, physically inferior Central Michigan defensive back.
The crowd inside Sanford Stadium buzzed in disbelief. The announcing team immediately compared Moreno to Herschel Walker.
Carson, meanwhile, resolved to replicate the feat.
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“It was right after watching Knowshon Moreno hurdle somebody in a Georgia game,” Carson recalled at his locker on Wednesday.