Mercer Buries Presbyterian 62-3 with 600 Total Yards
Sixty-two to three, and not one turnover from either side. Mercer simply did what it wanted for as long as it wanted, and beat Presbyterian 62-3 behind 600 total yards.
Jaylen King did most of the damage. He threw four touchdown passes (51 yards to Brayden Smith, 32 to Eric Rasheed, 6 to Samuel Albee and 14 to Travion Solomon) and ran in two more, from 16 yards and 12 yards. All of that was done by the 0:01 mark of the second quarter, when Solomon's catch made it 41-3. The only Presbyterian points were a 38-yard Kade Bailey field goal with 43 seconds left in the half.
The second half was cleanup. JP Pickles ran 26 yards for a touchdown with 54 seconds left in the third, then threw a 12-yard touchdown to Kel Calixte at 11:09 of the fourth. Devon Caldwell closed it with an 83-yard run at 7:38. That one run was 83 of his 152 rushing yards on 11 carries, which is more than half and also a lot of yards for one trip.
Mercer ran 33 times for 329 yards and threw for 271 more. Presbyterian was not nearly as bad on paper as it looked on the board (323 total yards, 216 of them passing), but it only came away with a field goal.
Mercer is 2-0 and Presbyterian is 0-1. King's 50.2 Promethium points came off 15 pass attempts and eight carries, which is the kind of Saturday you tell people about. If you had him, you can stop reading and go collect.