He had zero FBS scholarship offers. But Mekhi Mews is one of college football's best returners, and on a team of four- and five-stars, Mews is scattering and dicing defenses.
"A lot of smaller schools, I'm like, 'This kid is dominant on tape, dominant. Who cares if he's 5-foot-8?'" said Ferdinand, now an assistant coach at Kell High School in Marietta, Georgia."We weren't shooting for the stars at the time. I was trying to get schools like Samford and Furman to offer him, and they were like, 'He's too short, Coach. We just don't know. There's a taller kid we can take.
"One school said, 'Coach, we just don't know if he has big-play ability,'" Ferdinand said."That was the dumbest thing I had ever heard. Me and you obviously aren't watching the same tape. The first play on his tape, he breaks 16 tackles on a kickoff return and takes it 100 yards to the house."Mews' size wasn't the only thing that caused college recruiters to pass on offering him a scholarship.
In the end, Olivet Nazarene University, an NAIA program in Bourbonnais, Illinois, was the only team that offered Mews a full scholarship. FCS program Savannah State was willing to give him a partial scholarship; Mews said it would have cost him about $8,000 per year to attend the school. HBCUs Morehouse College, in Atlanta, and Livingstone College in Salisbury, North Carolina, also offered him partial scholarships.
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