New Mexico State quarterback Diego Pavia is listed at six-feet tall. He weighs in at a slight 200 pounds. And, most crucially, he is a quarterback, and entered Saturday’s contest against Auburn without a tackle to his name.
However, Pavia is also something else—an accomplished former wrestler for Albuquerque’s Volcano Vista High School.
On Saturday, he demonstrated his grappling chops with a vicious slam on Tigers cornerback Nehemiah Pritchett. Pritchett had intercepted Pavia on a play destined to be negated by an offsides penalty, only to encounter the quarterback at midfield with disastrous results.
