re: NOLA.com top 50... #2 Curtis, #1 Karr (teams play Sep. 26 at Behrman)

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whats the back story on him? any good?

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Too small to qb at the next level. Likely will play baseball though.

Broke both Eli and Peyton's passing records at Newman last year as a Sophomore.

ETA - was slightly off on my statement above:

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Tyler, though just a sophomore, put together a season at Newman rivaled by only one other Greenie quarterback, Peyton Manning. The 5-9, 165-pound son of former LSU quarterback Herb Tyler accounted for 3,097 yards and 45 touchdowns with his passing and running in 8½ games while driving the Greenies to a state playoff berth and 5-5 record.

Despite missing 1½ games because of an ankle sprain, the Greenies’ dual-threat quarterback completed 224 of 307 passes (73 percent) for 2,549 yards and 36 touchdowns with just six interceptions in his first full season as a starter. He also rushed for 548 yards and nine touchdowns while averaging 6.5 yards on 84 carries.

The 45 combined touchdowns eclipsed the previous school record of 44 set by Manning in 1993. Tyler also established single-game game records for passing yards (470), touchdown passes (six), completions (40), attempts (60), total yards (622) and total touchdowns (nine). Tyler came within 154 yards of equaling Manning’s 1993 season passing yardage record of 2,703.

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