![]() ![]() And (starters) Devon Cajuste and Ty Montgomery are playing great. “God bless Kodi every time we’ve given him an opportunity, he’s made a play. “I would say genetics,” Stanford coach David Shaw said, “but Bob is 6-7, 335 pounds, so I don’t think it came from Dad. There was Whitfield, a backup receiver, reaching into the sky and pulling down a minor miracle. ![]() Stanford needed this game - after last weekend’s loss in Utah - to get back into the Rose Bowl race Stanford needed that play. Whitfield’s TD came on second-and-18 (after a big loss) and put Stanford up 10-3, giving the Cardinal a lead it would never surrender. It was an incredible moment, on a national stage, against a top-10-ranked opponent, and it also happened when Stanford and UCLA were locked in a massive defensive struggle. “It was actually being pinned by the defender,” Whitfield said. But he gave me a chance, threw it up there, and I was able to bring it in with one hand.”Īs his father noted, Whitfield cupped the ball backhanded - sort of like Julius Erving before a tomahawk dunk - and also had to snatch it down quickly before safety Anthony Jefferson sailed through the area a split-second later.Īnd why didn’t he use his left hand on the catch? “I lined up out wide to the left, beat the defender one-on-one, didn’t really see the safety and I guess Hogan didn’t either. “It was one of the few targets I had this week, so I knew I’ve got to make every one of them count … “You’ve got to catch this one - got to catch this one,” Kodi Whitfield recalled thinking. Who knew even Kodi Whitfield could do that, until he did.īut Whitfield said he had one thought while Kevin Hogan’s pass was up in the air - and heading toward the first or second row, it looked like. Nobody is supposed to be able to do that. “To catch it there and then tuck it back in, I’m proud of that. He caught the point of that ball with a reverse grip. “He can glove just about anything,” said Kodi’s father, Bob Whitfield, the Stanford offensive lineman great, after his son’s 30-yard TD lit up the Cardinal’s eventual 24-10 victory over UCLA. Maybe that’s all debatable, but there’s no doubt Kodi Whitfield’s mind-blowing one-handed touchdown reception Saturday was the most spectacular in Whitfield family history. ![]() Was that the college football catch of the year? The greatest, most artistic grab in Stanford history? According ALL THE TOP COLLEGE FOOTBALL REPORTS and to our friends at Mercury News editor Tim Kawakami Looks like Kodi Whitfield managed to be the “Talk of the Day” in College Football by Making the “CATCH OF THE YEAR”. ![]()
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