The cornerback Mitchell stuck with the Rockets last summer even as Power Five programs pursued him.
Quinyon Mitchell spent the last couple of months bouncing between Toledo’s campus, the Detroit metropolitan airport, and numerous NFL training complexes.
Mitchell repaid that loyalty last summer, sticking with the Rockets even as Power Five programs swarmed, trying to entice him to enter the transfer portal. On Thursday, he became the first Toledo player taken in the first round in more than 20 years and a rarity in the modern college football landscape: a first-round prospect who played his entire career at a Group of 5 school.
Unable to contact Mitchell directly, a few coaches reached out to Wentworth as a workaround but were rebuffed. “When you’re an All-American player as a young player, you’re going to get noticed by people,” Candle said. “There’s tampering all over college football now, it’s not a good thing for our game, but it is what it is.
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