Mountain View's Richie Estrada, center, breaks for a second-quarter touchdown during a Division III high school football playoff game between Mountain View and Cienega on Friday, Nov. 2, 2012, at Cienega High School in Vail, Ariz. Mountain View won 19-17. Photo by Mike Christy / Arizona Daily Star 

Mountain View grad Estrada trying to find place at UA 

Richie Estrada gained 3,701 rushing yards while at Mountain View High School from 2011-13, one of Southern Arizona’s top football players of that period. He is now on Arizona’s football roster, trying to climb up the depth chart in spring practice. Estrada spent the 2014 season at Wabash College in Indiana, gaining 124 yards in five games, limited by injury. He sat out the ’15 season.


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