Even from a football field away, the little boy’s arm caught the eye of youth football coach Willie Munford, so he walked over for a closer look. He’d never seen a child that young, surely no more than 8, fling a football with such abandon. © Jonathan Newton/The Washington Post Ohio State quarterback C.J. Stroud will lead the No. 2 Buckeyes against No. 3 Michigan on Saturday. (Jonathan Newton/The Washington Post) But after Munford started coaching C.J. Stroud, other beyond-his-years qualities jumped out to the point that he started calling him “Little Man.” At 10, Stroud led the Alta Loma Warriors in prayer before kickoff. Whenever games started getting a little crazy, Munford recalled, he’d tell his teammates in the huddle, “Everybody calm down.” “C.J. was always mature,” Munford said in a telephone interview. “Even when he was just a kid and did kid stuff, he knew what he wanted.…
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