Stepping forward in a Cardinals receivers room that lost its top five targets from last season, Jalen Walthall leads the FCS with five touchdown catches.
Spending his first three years of college football at Hawaii , Incarnate Word receiver Jalen Walthall said the biggest lesson he learned was how to be independent. The Manvel product struggled to keep in touch with friends and family five time zones away in the Houston area, and having them in the stands for a game was out of the question. Hawaii ’s beauty lived up to its reputation – “a great vacation spot,” Walthall said – but it never felt like home.
” Returning quarterback Zach Calzada said Walthall emerged as an early standout because of his speed, his ability to beat press coverage at the line of scrimmage and his skill tracking the ball in the air. “Overall, he’s a really good receiver,” Calzada said. “Those other guys are doing a fantastic job, too. You never know who is going to have a hot hand in a game. Any of those guys could have a performance like that in any given game this year.
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