Some background on Kopp: (the Athletic background article highlights)
Kopp is a big dude, too, at 6-foot-5 and 210 pounds. The Houston St. Thomas passer understands why he has flown under the radar.
“Honestly, I’m so late on the scene for football,” Kopp said. “I always grew up playing AAU basketball, from fourth grade until this past year. That was literally my life. And football was in there, I still played football. But I never really took it as serious as I did basketball.”
He’s the youngest of four brothers in a family full of athletes. Braden played football at Vanderbilt, Miller plays basketball at Northwestern and Anderson plays basketball at Lamar. And Maddox can throw it down like the rest of them.
He backed up Miami’s Peyton Matocha at St. Thomas until his junior year. When he got his shot, he earned second-team all-state honors in TAPPS after throwing for 3,106 yards and 28 touchdowns and leading his squad to the state semifinals, where it lost to the same foe, Parish Episcopal.
He has spent the past few months training with Darrell Colbert Jr., along with fellow Elite 11 quarterback Kyron Drones, Miami’s D’Eriq King and Florida’s Kyle Trask, and vows it has made a huge difference in his arm strength, release and ball placement.
