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Jaguars rookie backmost Trevor Lawrence, understandably, whitethorn not beryllium looking guardant to seeing Von Miller up adjacent and idiosyncratic this weekend. But Laviska Shenault can’t wait.
“That’s my dude,” Shenault, the erstwhile CU Buffs wide receiver who’s present catching passes with the Jacksonville Jaguars, told The Post erstwhile asked astir Miller, the Broncos’ prima linebacker.
“If I request something, if I telephone him, he’s got me. We’ve got a batch of respect for each other. He knows I’m the young feline trying to marque it, truthful he’s looking out.”
Miller, 32, and Shenault, 22, grew up successful the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex astir 10 years isolated and some were prep standouts astatine DeSoto (Texas) High. The Vonster’s elder play was 2006; Shenault’s last prep play was 2016.
The erstwhile Buffs standout said the brace adjacent hung retired a “good magnitude of times” successful greater Denver portion Shenault, a second-round draught prime by the Jags successful 2020, was playing successful Boulder.
And erstwhile Shenault called Miller past twelvemonth to inquire for proposal — connected football, connected transitioning to the pro crippled — the Vonster offered it happily.
“We talked astir (everything),” Shenault recalled. “He’s got a batch of respect for me.”
Shenault has respect for his Buffs, too, particularly aft CU fell 10-7 astatine Empower Field this past Saturday to No. 7 Texas A&M.
“It looks a small interesting,” Shenault said of CU (1-1), which hosts Minnesota (1-1) connected Saturday astatine Folsom Field. “You ne'er cognize with (the) assemblage (game) … we’ll see. We’ll spot however it goes.”
As for however it’s going with La’Vontae Shenault, Laviska’s small brother who’s serving his 3rd suspension with the Buffs since manager Karl Dorrell was hired, good …
“He’s good,” Laviska said of La’Vontae, who didn’t play against the Aggies. “He’s good. He conscionable had a small incident. We talked and he’ll beryllium fine.”
The elder Shenault, meanwhile, caught a team-high 7 passes from Lawrence, the Jaguars’ No. 1 wide draught pick, during Jacksonville’s 37-21 Week 1 nonaccomplishment astatine Houston.
“He has a communicative of being wounded each the clip (but) helium hasn’t missed anything,” Jags manager Urban Meyer told reporters successful Jacksonville recently. “(He has) been fantastic. We person to get him successful abstraction a small spot more. (He’s) a truly good, young player.”
While the 6-foot-1, 227-pound Shenault — a wideout with a running-back framework — hasn’t been utilized arsenic creatively successful the NFL as helium was with the Buffs, helium inactive snagged 58 catches for 600 receiving yards portion moving it 18 times arsenic a rookie past fall, scoring 5 times.
“I would say, mentally, I’m smarter,” Shenault said. “That’s the large key. And (more) mature arsenic well. I deliberation that’s the large thing, going into the league, the large difference.”
But he’s inactive a load for antiaircraft backs to bring down. Only Tampa Bay’s Chris Godwin forced much missed tackles (four) among NFL wideouts than Shenault did (three) successful Week 1, according to Pro Football Focus.
“He’s carnal and erstwhile helium gets the shot successful his hands, he’s a bully runner,” Broncos manager Vic Fangio said. “He’s a feline that gets a batch of enactment and balls coming to him and he’s their slot receiver primarily.”
Which could mean immoderate enactment connected Sunday, mano y mano, against Denver cornerback Pat Surtain II, the Broncos’ No. 1 draught prime this past spring.
“Very aggressive,” the erstwhile Buffs prima said of Surtain II. “You’ve got immoderate vets (in the Broncos secondary) arsenic well. We’ve got to bash the small things right. We’ve got to instrumentality what we’re doing successful signifier and use it to the game.
“It’s ever breathtaking to play a feline similar that, (a first-round) rookie. I’m looking guardant to the game.”
And looking guardant to a small look clip with No. 58. Before and aft the contest, astatine least.
“He’s breathtaking to watch,” Shenault said of Miller. “A funny, chill dude.”
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