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Brandon Huffman at 247Sports.com:
Phoenix Brophy Prep 2027 Recipient Donovan McNabb, Jr.makes a name for himself as a pass catcher. While his father Donovan McNabb spent his 13-year NFL career behind the center and led the Philadelphia Eagles Aimed at a Super Bowl berth, the younger McNabb plans to spend his football career catching passes.
He received his first offer at the beginning of the summer from Northern Arizona.
Donovan McNabb Jr.? We’re old! He’s 16 and was born in 2008, just months before his father’s last run with the Eagles to the NFC title game.
They listed him at 6’1″ and 165 pounds, so he’s DeVonta Smith’s current size, but he’s still in high school. I did a little Googling on him and found some desperate Syracuse fans hoping he follows in his father’s footsteps, but this isn’t 1998 and Paul Pasqualoni isn’t walking through that door. McNabb Jr. better go to a real football school.
What’s interesting, though, is that he plays receiver and not quarterback. Donovan Sr. could have taught him the art of the worm burner, the one pass per game that’s thrown straight into the ground. Legendary! But Jr. has some Eagles greats as role models, guys his dad threw the ball to. We’re talking Brian Westbrook, Brent Celek, D Jax, Kevin Curtis in the horrible blue and yellow throwback uniforms, and Freddie Mitchell and his hands. He also wears number 5, and as you know, number 5 will always love you.
