Kyle McCord waited for months to throw a football in a competitive setting before the chance arrived last week at the Elite 11 finals. He didn’t show much rust. McCord, a five-star quarterback recruit from Philadelphia who has been committed to Ohio State for a year, put together one of the top performances at the camp. He placed second to Caleb Williams, a similarly heralded passer from Washington, for MVP honors. “Obviously the competitor in me wanted to win it, but the biggest thing for me was to soak up as much knowledge as I could,” said McCord, who will be a high school senior this fall. “I felt I put out a pretty strong performance.” At the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, the fate of the prestigious competition featuring top high school senior quarterbacks seemed uncertain. Regional events were canceled. The quarterbacks had to submit footage of scripted throwing…
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