Wheeling Park Grad Mosby Brings Energy to WVU
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By JARED SERRE
For The Intelligencer
It's not often that a walk-on sees extensive playing time for a Power 5 football program.
As things currently stand, the West Virginia Mountaineers' football roster features more than 90 players, with more set to join come the fall. Those on scholarship normally fill the top 11 positions on offense and defense, but that doesn't mean walk-ons are overlooked. Despite being often buried on the depth chart, they can be influential in other places, such as the locker room or on the practice field.
For Wheeling Park graduate Quamaezius Mosby, he's starting to find himself a home on special teams. Entering his third season with the Mountaineers, now he's seen as much more than a seat-filler. He has the potential to be a true contributor.
"I think he's got a bunch of people ahead of him in the corner (and) spear position," safeties coach Dontae Wright said, "but he's going to be a guy that -- cause I run the punt return unit -- he'll be a guy that is one of our block guys cause he understands direct angle and things like that."
Mosby's road to becoming a Division I college football player has been a long and winding one.
A multi-sport athlete at Wheeling Park High School, Mosby graduated in the spring of 2017 and stepped on campus at West Liberty University that fall, participating in both track & field and as an offensive weapon on the football team.
Despite catching a touchdown and rushing for another during his redshirt freshman season, he searched for a new opportunity. He found it with the Mountaineers.
Since stepping on campus in Morgantown in 2019, Mosby has bounced around the field at different positions before entering this spring working with the team's safeties. His willingness to move speaks to his selflessness, a trait that special teams coordinator Jeff Koonz expressed his pleasure with.
"Mosby's a high energy guy, a high effort guy," Koonz said. "He's a guy that comes every day and he's trying to compete. He's just trying to continue to do more and more and more to help this team; he's a really selfless guy."
While his future in the secondary seems unlikely, Mosby already has a bit of a special teams foundation to build off of. He saw a handful of snaps on the punt team last season, recording one tackle. This spring, he's been taking strides to help improve a unit that was fairly middle of the road in the Big 12 last season.
"He's a guy that knows there were a couple opportunities last year that he could have really changed the impact of some games early on and he's the first one in line when we're doing those drills," Koonz said.
Koonz says that Mosby has shown flashes of his ability to be a factor. There's no question that his athleticism makes him an appealing option to assist on kickoff and punt coverage this fall.
"I'm excited about Mosby and I really think he can be a core guy for us this year moving forward," Koonz said. "He's really showed the ability to be able to turn and run, flip and find his man that he's blocking and get his body in that "ball, me, man" situation. Hopefully he can bring some more to the table in our return units as well."
Not bad for a walk-on.