Meet Rico Gathers, the Best Bet to Be the NFL’s Next Antonio Gates

April 22, 2016   ·   Sean Tomlinson   ·   Jump to comments

When you ask Rico Gathers to choose his first love between basketball and football, the answer is instant. It comes without a beat of hesitation. 
"Football."
Then when you ask him about the last football game he played, the details flow from a memory that’s etched deep.
"My last game was the junior high championship game," he told Bleacher Report. "It started out with me scoring four straight touchdowns in the first half. They basically all came on the same play. We just kept going to it, and then suddenly it was 28-0."
This is when you stop, and do a double or triple take if you know little about Gathers. Something doesn’t quite add up with that timeline.
And maybe you don’t know much about him. Maybe you’re only a casual college basketball follower.
Let’s have Gathers introduce himself a little more then.
"I’ve studied as much film of Antonio Gates, Jimmy Graham, Rob Gronkowski and Tony Gonzalez as I can," h...

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