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PEORIA — Brotherly love has a bit of a different meaning for Benjamin and Brady Mullens.
Benjamin, the Peoria Notre Dame senior quarterback, and Brady, the junior center, have unbelievable chemistry on the football field. These two have put in so many reps that no one would be able to tell this is the first year playing their respective positions.
“We just got a ton of experience playing together,” Benjamin said following Friday’s 65-14 road win over Big 12 Conference rival Richwoods. “… I’m just used to it. It’s easy and when the center and quarterback exchange is easy, everything else is easier. Everything else is free to flow.”
No one, however, admires his older brother quite like Brady.
“His will to work 120 percent of the time,” the 6-foot-2, 270-pound “littler” Mullens said. “Out (on the field) you don’t even see 99 percent of the work. … He’s hardest worker on this team by far.
“(Playing together is) kind of like a sixth sense. It’s just something we’re together on everything. We go home, eat together. … We’ve been playing so long (together). Every kind of movement that we go is just kind of in sync like that.”
And, of course, it’s only natural that sibling rivalry can often emerge. The Mullens brothers are no exception to that Just ask their coach, Pat Armstrong.
“Sometimes I worry about them going home together, right?” he joked. “There’s some practices where the ball’s on the ground and the snaps and exchanges don’t go well. I offer to let one of them come live with me for the next six or seven weeks.
“Brothers get testy.”
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Added Benjamin, “You spend enough time around a person, they’re bound to have something that drives you crazy, but when you get out on the field, it…
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Author : Journal Star
Publish date : 2024-09-21 06:19:25
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