Inside 4-star WR commit Ny Carr's explosive start
Colquitt County head coach Sean Calhoun opened a text from 4-star Georgia wide receiver commit Ny Carr near the end of last season and grinned.
Carr pointed to his performance on the field but he also alluded to his grades taking an uptick.
“He said ‘coach the way I’ve been playing, my grades have been coming up’ and when he verbalized that without me having to pull it out of him, I said ‘Hey, we’re moving in the right direction.’” Calhoun said. “This kid gets it because he does.”
Ny Carr takes the next step on the field
Over the last month and a half of last season and the first three weeks of this season, Carr has gone on a tear on the field.
“He’s so intelligent and he’s got a big future and he’s finally able to see that this stuff correlates,” Calhoun said. “He saw it and that’s when he started balling. I know we got beat in the semifinals, but he was the best player on the field.”
The No. 68 overall prospect in the On3 Industry Rankings collected 766 yards in the last eight games of 2022. He’s added 376 yards and eight touchdowns in the first three games of 2023.
Carr added 100-plus yards and a touchdown against Lee County on Friday night.
The great player becomes a great person
For Calhoun, there was a clear connection between an on-the-field explosion and the growth of the person off the field for Carr.
“He started doing things to not only be a really good football player but a really good person, a good student, son, teammate and cousin,” Calhoun said. “He wanted to just be the person that he can be and football will take care of itself… The good Lord has put his hands on that man and said, ‘you’re going to have abilities that other people don’t’.”
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Calhoun has watched Carr become a dynamic player on the practice field as well.
“The stat that you won’t see is how well that he’s been practicing,” Calhoun said. “He goes so hard, you’d think it was the state championship game. Every practice he’s a really good practice player, which I think is underrated for a high school kid.”
Carr’s habits could translate to Georgia
Carr is on a competitive high school team but admittedly, Calhoun doesn’t feel there’s a player that is challenging car for playing time at the moment. He knows that will change in Athens.
Carr is getting a leg up on the mindset that it will take to make an impact at Georgia.
“There’s nobody behind him pushing him for his spot,” Calhoun said. “That’s the type of player that he’s become. It’s been a good thing to see and hopefully, that’s going to set him up at Georgia. He’s going to have to practice that way to get on the field up there. There’s no coincidence that he’s been doing well in practice, and it’s translated to him playing so well.”
Carr carries a competitiveness onto the field. The four-star wideout carries a personable personality. He’s a different person when he’s between the lines according to Calhoun.
Playing early in Athens is something that he’s already striving for according to his head coach.
“Ny isn’t the type of player that wants to go to a practice or a game and not be the starter,” Calhoun said. “He’s not the type of wide receiver that doesn’t want to be the guy. I think you want wide receivers that want to be the guy. Obviously, you can’t be a detriment to the team and selfish which that’s not him. You do want that guy to say get me the ball. He’s an ultra-competitor. You get him off the field and he’s got the billion-dollar smile, he can joke and he can talk about anything. When he puts the pads on, it’s an elite level. It’s a Georgia competitiveness and not everybody has that. It’s hard for me to think with that in him, that he’s not going to earn a chance to play.”
