Study turned into results on field for Stuttgart’s Lewis

When Kai Lewis was thrust under center after Stuttgart’s first game last fall, he picked up some of the intricacies of the position. Something was still missing by season’s end, though. The former wideout could see he had a teammate open, but he often hesitated, losing the chance to hit his receiver. At a football camp over the summer, a Cal Poly coach explained to him how that pause was often the difference between a positive play and an incompletion or worse – an interception. He told Lewis to believe in himself. It resonated with the Stuttgart quarterback. “You have to trust yourself and trust your teammates. That was the main thing,” Lewis said. “I took that...