As a 200-pound freshman at Hart High School in Valencia, Calif., during the fall of 2012, Colby Pursell was not only in his first year of playing football, but his first year in organized sports.
By the end of that season, Pursell had displayed enough potential to get called up to varsity for the playoffs.
“They saw potential in me and I kind of took that to heart, so I knew I had to work out,” he said. “I had to adjust if I wanted to be good because I didn’t want to be average. I wanted to be good at what I did, so I had to work hard at it.”
Often working out twice a day to get better, Pursell lived up to his potential in high school. Now a 6-foot-4, 290-pound redshirt freshman with the Colorado Buffaloes, his drive to succeed has put him in position to take over the starting role at center this season.
“It’s a pretty exciting prospect,” Pursell said, “but I obviously have to work and still earn my spot here out on the practice fields. Potential … everyone recruited here has potential. Now you have to get on the field and execute and show you can actually play and hang with the big guys.”
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