October 18, 2011

Explosive Muhammad one of the stars of 2013

By Admin

 

 

Every time Khalfani Muhammad touches the ball everyone in the stands holds their breath. The junior Notre Dame running back is a threat to score whenever he touches the ball and is impressive with the pads off as he is with the pads on.

 

 

While most would consider a 5’8 running back as slightly undersized, you would be hard pressed to find an opposing defender that considers Khalfani small. Muhammad is absolutely ripped, packing 170 pounds of pure muscle onto his frame which allows him to be a complete back, as likely to run you over as he is to run by you.

 

 

Khalfani burst onto the scene as a sophomore, pilling up 851 rushing yards with 13 touchdowns on 161 carries while also racking up 279 receiving yards and a touchdown on 21 receptions. While Muhammad is just recently turning heads as a football player, he has long been a track star and already has a enough medals and trophies to fill up all the shelves in his room.

 

 

Last year Muhammad finished second in California in the 100 meters and comes from a track background, as his father Malik was an sprinter at USC and competeted in the Olympics for Puerto Rico in the 1984 Los Angeles games.

 

 

Muhammad’s track background has helped him enhance his blazing speed that makes him so hard to keep up with on the football field, but Khalfani also credits track with helping his mental toughness.

 

 

“People see track as a non contact sport, but track can put you in such a hard place mentally. You hit a wall and you have to push yourself through and I think my experience in track has helped me push through the walls I’ve had to deal with in football. Track runners sometimes get a bad rap as far as we can’t compete in football and I want to prove that myth wrong,” Muhammad said.

 

 

 

Khalfani has certainly done that and then some, as his breathtaking plays on the football field have led to a whole host of college suitors. Washington offered Khalfani in the spring of his sophomore year and the UCLA Bruins have since offered the star tailback. Expect plenty of more offers to come Khalfani’s way as Oregon, Oregon State, Duke, Nebraska, Arizona, Arizona State, USC, Louisiana State and Boston College have all been flooding the Muhammad mailbox with hand written letters.

 

 

While he will have plenty of incredible schools to choose from when his decision time comes, Khalfani will be considered more then just football when he picks a college.

 

 

“I want to be a plastic surgeon after football,” Muhammad said. “I’ve always been interested in plastic surgery and understanding how the body works and how we can morph and change it,” Muhammad said, before quickly adding with a smile, “but I’ll never get plastic surgery on myself, I look too good.”

 

 

Off the field Khalfani is known for his laid back personality and diverse interests.

 

 

“I leave my football mindset on the field,” Khalfani said. “Once the bell rings and football is done for the day, I just like to relax, I’m very laid back, I’m not too intense of a person. I just like hanging out with my friends, trying to talk to girls, making jokes, you know.”

 

 

 

Muhammad loves building models of helicopters and airplanes and is very interested in science fiction shows, listing Terra Nova as his favorite show.

 

 

 

But while he is extremely relaxed off the field, the second the whistle blows Muhammad turns into a different person.

 

 

“There are no friends on the football field,” Muhammad says. “I look at the other guy, I like to look him right in the eyes and I think it’s me verse you, it’s me verse the defense. I’m going to go out there and destroy you.”

 

Comments

Add Comment...