![]() ![]() ![]() With NFL ambitions realistic, the 6-foot-3, 190-pound receiver decided to take his skills to the FBS level for a final season in 2021. Toure became an FCA All-American at Montana in 2019 after he went for 1,495 receiving yards, which gives him 2,488 yards and 20 touchdowns during his three years playing with the Grizzlies. But he took it a level further than I probably even thought to be honest, but I'm also not surprised." So once I saw that he wasn't that 'I'm satisfied' type of guy, I knew given an opportunity he could possibly make some things happen. "That's one of the things you don't recognize until people start getting better and then they still kind of have that chip on their shoulder. I just think over time, he continued to stay hungry," Lillard said. Something Lillard would discover in Toure over time. One thing about Toure that Lillard knew even six or seven years ago: The dude was fast.īut that alone wasn't going to be enough. The coach is pretty proud about the latter. ![]() As time went on, I kind of developed my niche into coaching now, and they've kind of grown into other things." Took a liking to them and started working with them. "Him and Jaydon Grant (a defensive back at Oregon State) were really good friends. "He was the one of the kids who used to catch with me when I played arena football," Lillard told Husker247 on Friday. Prior to that, he met an eager receiver named Toure, a grad transfer from the University of Montana who Nebraska fans are hoping tears it up in a Husker uniform in 2021. Houston Lillard has his own path going, which now includes him serving as head football coach of Jefferson High School in Portland. And, yes, if you are right now adding up the Portland part with the Lillard name – NBA star Damian Lillard is Houston's younger brother. They first met when Lillard was tuning up his quarterback skills in an effort to play ball for an arena team in Portland, Oregon. Now to a field in the middle of America where he will have a fan base's full attention, and hopefully the notice does not stop there. How could you guess it just then? But then again, the young receiver did always show up to work. Houston Lillard knew the elevator Samori Toure was on was going up, but he can't honestly say he knew it was going all the way to this floor. ![]()
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