Please, for your own sake, don't pigeonhole Bobby Sewall.
The Brown wide receiver is certainly good at his job - his eight receptions and 116.2 receiving yards per game make him the most prolific wideout in the Ivy League. But if you ignore his other abilities, you're liable to get burned.
Want to see him run it? Sewall averaged 5.5 yards per carry and found the end zone eight times on the ground in 2007 and has two rushing scores this year.
Dare him to throw it? The former Portsmouth High School (R.I.) quarterback has taken reps under center in practice and bombed a 41-yard touchdown to Buddy Farnham against Dartmouth a year ago.
Sewall is a good old fashioned playmaker - no matter what that may entail.
"Most coaches didn't really know where they wanted to put me. [Some] thought receiver, Holy Cross thought running back, a little bit on defense with some schools," Sewall said. "I'm more than happy to do whatever the coach asks. If they want to put the ball in my hands then I'm gonna make those plays."
Now, in his junior season, Sewall has focused on catching the football, and it's paying serious dividends for the Bears, who sit at 3-0 in the Ivy League.
Sewall is just the latest feature wideout in Brown's trademark spread offense. Following in the footsteps of receivers who have gotten looks from the NFL (see: Hill, Lonnie and Raymond, Paul), Sewall received second-team All-Ivy honors last year, but should be a lock for the first team this year.
"He's still a young guy, unfortunately," Penn coach Al Bagnoli said. "He kind of burst on the scene as a freshman, and . he's a very talented athlete."
And as a part of the Wide Receiver Factory that is Brown, he knows that his ceiling may be higher than best of the Ancient Eight.
Sewall looks to Raymond, his former teammate and current Detroit Lions' practice squad member, and to East Providence, R.I., native and Boston College grad Jamie Silva, now on the Indianapolis Colts, as indication that he could be on pro scouts' radar.
"The fact that local Rhode Island kids are getting looks [from the NFL] and Brown kids are getting looks is a big deal," Sewall said. "I know they're gonna be watching."
Ironically for the Quakers, Sewall's football career had its earliest beginnings right around the corner.
When his father was president of Ron Jaworski Management, Sewall lived near Cherry Hill, N.J., and was first exposed to football by going to watch the Philadelphia Eagles, Temple Owls and - you guessed it - the Penn Quakers.
His first trip to Franklin Field may have been when he was younger than 5 years old, but the Sewall household remembers it well.
"I do remember being there and it being a great stadium," said Sewall, who will bring several family members from the area to Saturday's game. "My dad tells me he used to bring me there and I'd be scared of the mascots."
But a decade and a half later, Sewall's going to be the scary one.
