Watch: High school football player makes backflip catch look easy

As four-star recruit Nigel Knott knows, simple backflip football catches are a thing of yesterday.

His catch, in a YouTube video posted Sunday, is literally off the wall.

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Tarik Cohen, you’ve been one-upped.

According to Yahoo Sports, Knott is a 17-year-old junior at Germantown High School in Madison, Missouri and has offers to play for colleges including Alabama, Michigan, Oregon, and USC.

He’s not hurting his stock with catches like that, the latest in what’s become the spring of backflipcatches.

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