The beginning could have ended him.

First varsity start. Last varsity start?

“I remember thinking, ‘It can’t get worse than that,’ ” Woodstock quarterback Caden Thompson said of the first pass he ever threw in a varsity football game, Aug. 25, 2023, at home against Rochelle in a Kishwaukee River Conference crossover to start the season.

Thompson’s get-the-confidence-going, welcome-to-varsity, simple screen was caught – by a Rochelle Hub, who ran the other way with ball and raced into the end zone.

“They pressed their corners, so I tried to check down to my tight end,” Thompson said. “I didn’t see one of their linebackers – who had started on the line – drop off. He stepped in front of it, and it was a pick-six.”

It can’t get any worse than that.

Well ...

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