Watson shows off multiple talents on track

YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan – As a receiver, Chris Watson helped Nile C. Kinnick win its school-first Far East Division I football title. As a guard, he helped lead the Red Devils to their second D-I final, where they lost to Humphreys.

Now, Watson is spending his last months at Kinnick (he transfers to Pennsylvania after this school year) on the track. To hear him tell it, much of what he does there mirrors the gridiron and hardwood.

“A lot of it translates over,” he said.

Watson won the 100, 200 and long jump during Saturday’s meet at Yokota, and has already qualified for next month’s Far East meet in each event.

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