Undrafted to making the team? Kenny Yeboah somehow hauls in incredible 49-yard Hail Mary
By Keith Farner
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Former Ole Miss WR Kenny Yeboah won’t forget this catch anytime soon.
Now with the New York Jets, Yeboah somehow caught a 49-yard touchdown to pull the Jets into a tie against the Philadelphia Eagles in a preseason game Friday night. Overall, he had 100 yards on 4 catches. As plays go for undrafted rookie free agents, it’s tough to find a play that could be more impactful on his future.
The play came with 6 seconds remaining in the game, and on fourth down and 4.
“Man, it was crazy,” Yeboah told Eric Allen of newyorkjets.com. “I’m just very thankful I’m here with the Jets and Coach Saleh. I’m just so happy to be here.”
“Coach called the play, James came in the huddle and said, ‘We’re going to throw it deep and somebody’s going to make the play.’ We’re running out there, lining up, and me and the receivers were talking, ‘We’ve got to make this play,’ ” he described the unfolding of the Hail Mary, one of the few the Jets have executed in their history, either in the preseason or regular season. “”We lined up in a bunch format outside the numbers. One person’s long, one person’s short, one person’s in the middle,” It’s basically a jump ball.
“I just ran down the field, looked up, the ball was coming, and I said, ‘Oh, yeah, I can make this play.'”
The Jets finished with their first undefeated preseason since 2002 at 2-0-1.
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— Ole Miss Football (@OleMissFB) August 28, 2021
A former newspaper veteran, Keith Farner is a news manager for Saturday Down South.
