TCU receiver Listenbee has added more than just speed to his game
Kolby Listenbee has gone from not being able to catch the ball to becoming a physical receiver TCU can count on.
Seventh last season in the 100-meters at the NCAA track championship, the senior averaged 18.4 yards per catch as well as being the team's second-leading receiver. last season. Pretty impressive, considering Listenbee had just two catches as a sophomore and just one as a freshman.
But he's changed. Forty-one catches last year playing in all 13 games, including four touchdowns and two games where he had more than 100 yards receiving.
"You get a lot of track guys that are really fast, but they don’t become football players," coach Gary Patterson said to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. "And he catches the inside ball, he catches the hard catch, the dig, the crossing route; he plays the ball in the air, which he didn’t do a year and a half ago. He caught a ball yesterday that was a back-shoulder throw that he came back to, and he also can outrun you.”
Listenbee was a quarterback in high school and made the switch to receiver once he got to Fort Worth.
"Three years ago, Kolby couldn't catch the ball at all," TCU teammate and receiver Josh Doctson said jokingly. "I used to tell him there's going to be better days, your time will come."
(H/T The Fort Worth Star-Telegram)
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