“I used to joke in college and when I got here a little bit that I’m a running back who learned how to play receiver,” Ty Montgomery said. “Who would have thought I ended up in the running back room?”
Running back wasn’t foreign to Montgomery. He played there throughout most of his childhood before getting to high school.
He only made the switch to receiver because of the pass-heavy system his high school ran at the time.
“My ball coach in high school asked me if I would play receiver to help,” Montgomery said. “I was like, ‘Yeah, I’ll do anything to play varsity.’ He was like, ‘To be honest, we’re not going to run the ball so we’re just going to have you play receiver.’ I was like ‘OK.’”
He carried the ball 34 times for 334 yards and four touchdowns at Stanford
“I do recall a young man being excited to have the opportunity to play more, excited to have more of a role,” Bennett said. “He’s certainly one of the guys who have made the most of his opportunities. You look at what we were able to accomplish this past game, broke a lot of tackles, played with very good balance and accelerated his feet on contact.”
“It felt really natural, personally,” Montgomery said. “Nothing too difficult. Just learning all the language. It is a different language, for sure. I don’t worry about coverage anymore. I worry about fronts. Coverages are still coverages. Now I’m learning about fronts and different blitzes.”
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