McComb’s Bobby Felder scored almost every way he could this season.
Running, receiving and returning.
He never did throw for a score, but the Tigers tried it against Mendenhall.
There wasn’t any other way McComb coach Randy Martin could think of to get Felder the ball.
“I don’t think it would have made any difference,” he said. “We try to put him in a position to be successful.”
Felder scored 10 touchdowns for the Tigers. Two came off punt returns, another on a kickoff return, one came on a reverse and the other six he caught from quarterback Anthony Daniels.
Felder amassed 1,138 total yards in an offense where there were options A through F. Had Felder lined up at each receiver or running back spot, the Tigers would have scored twice as many points this season.
Felder returned two kicks early on for touchdowns, a kickoff return against Franklin County and a punt return against Madison Central, one of his four TDs in the game.
For the rest of the season, teams schemed away from Felder and toward the other Tigers.
“The good thing about having Bobby on the field is we had other people,” Martin said. “They’d kick to Mario Smith, Edgar Smith or Justin Powell, some pretty good people back there.”
That doesn’t include the pooches on kickoffs that put the Tigers in good field position.
