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Jaxson Dart has welcomed the pressure of taking the game into his own hands.
That’s an inherent responsibility of playing quarterback at every level, and Dart has accepted that from the moment he stepped on the youth football fields home in Utah.
We’re not talking hero ball, mind you, but the willingness to accept the burden of raising the standard for a team when execution above the X’s and O’s matters most.
The new coach was not one of these Average Joe Division III players who overpopulate coaching staffs and front-office suites all across the league. Kafka played quarterback at Northwestern and was a fourth-round pick of the Eagles. He stands tall at a podium. He stands taller in a team meeting.
“I thought he did a good job being a leader in the locker room and on the field, keeping guys engaged and inspired on the sideline,” Jon Runyan said. “He brought a lot of energy and I think we fed off that. Since he’s been in this role, he’s been very vocal, maybe a little more vocal than Dabes was. Dabes had his moments but Kaf’s been super intense and super vocal all week and today to keep the morale up. … He really listens to the leaders on this team, the stuff they see, and lets the team this past week kind of build itself and lead itself. And then he’s at the head of that in making the final decisions.”
Wide receiver Isaiah Hodgins is back. After signing off the Steelers practice squad this week for a second stint with the team, he immediately became their top wide receiver. Hodgins played 78% of the snaps and caught five passes on six targets for 57 yards. That...
