Like Father Like Son
Posted by jannelle on September 22, 2007
A few months ago, USA Today mentioned that John Elway is helping out on his son’s varsity team. Two weeks ago, ESPN featured a story on Joe Montana’s quarterback sons. What they covered was okay but there is something pretty interesting over here at the Red Zone!
While Jack Elway and Nathainel and Nicholas Montana is receiving the most press, Menlo High’s Jerry Rice Jr. is making some noise early in his first year of varsity play! That’s right, Jerry Rice’s son is slicing through the Peninsula Athletic League’s Bay Divison.
In Menlo’s season opener, Rice caught 6 passes for 89 yards. In the second game, Rice exploded for 101 yards rushing, 1 touchdown and 46 yards receiving. During Menlo’s loss yesterday, Rice caught 5 passes for 83 yards and returned a punt to Terra Nova’s 20 yard line.
At this point in the season, Rice compiled 270 yards rushing on 32 carries, 19 receptions for 284 yards, and 7 touchdowns. On defense, Rice made 21 tackles as a safety, and accumulated 183 yards on kick and punt returns.
The scary thing about these stats is this kid is just scratching the surface of his potential! In a recent interview from Inside Bay Area. com, Knight’s coach Mark Newton said this about his young Wide Receiver/Tailback/DB “We thought he could be pretty good. He’s young and he is getting better every week. Every week, we see something in practice that make us think ‘wow’ “ Sr. quarterback, Travis Boyce said in the same feature that Rice, Jr. is coming into his own very fast.
After looking at these numbers and the picture above, I’m getting the impression that Jerry Jr will be a great multi purpose tailback! If Coach Newton will feature him somehow in the backfield, this kid will have a chance to further carve his own identity and the team will really be unstoppable.
Regardless of what position he plays, Rice, Jr has it and he will be a great asset to a Div.1 school or even a pro team!
