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Prep Blitz 2014: Whitwell Tigers

A year ago, Clay McHone was a master of hide-and-seek.

The diminutive Whitwell runner missed one game entirely because of a concussion and rarely played into the fourth quarter in at least five of the Tigers’ other games in 2014.

Yet he finished the year with 1,406 yards, a per-game average of 156.2.

Pretty good for a guy who’s barely on the high side of 5-foot-6 and has to stomp on the scales to get about 170 pounds.

“It doesn’t bother me,” the Tigers junior said. “It’s a talent of mine. I’m fairly elusive and they don’t see me until I’m right up on them, and then it’s too late.”