![]() ![]() We didn’t have a very good offensive line, but he was able to use his athleticism to get out of situations even at a young age. “He was always picking out the receivers. ![]() “As a young kid, he was able to see things on the field that a lot of kids couldn’t see,” said Chad Anderson, Mond’s coach with the Longhorns. He excelled right away, and remained with the Longhorns the next year when he played tackle football for the first time. By the time he was 9, he played organized flag football for the first time, in 2008 with the Longhorns in the Mays Family YMCA at Stone Oak league. When he was 2, I had him throw balls from his knees to build torque in his body.” “So I was pretty athletic and I thought he could do some things football-wise. I’m 6-foot-5, so I knew he’d be tall, but 6-4 in basketball is not being tall,” Kevin Mond said of his son, who is actually listed at 6-3. “I started grooming him to be a quarterback at the age of 2. His dad, a former high school basketball star in San Antonio who elected to enter the Army rather than play college ball, decided early on that his son’s sport should be football. Mond has been honing his football skills since around the time his hands were big enough to hold a ball.
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