<body><div><figure><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=0stoM6_1Gy08Ndz00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=0stoM6_1Gy08Ndz00" width="810" height="540" ><figcaption>Noah Collins-Howard points downfield after making a catch for Rush-Henrietta High School. Collins-Howard, a three-star wide receiver recruit, committed to play at Syracuse on March 25. Courtesy of Noah Collins-Howard</figcaption></figure>Get the latest Syracuse news delivered right to your inbox. Subscribe to our newsletter here.Each of Noah Collins-Howard’s game days follows the same pattern. After eating next to nothing all day to “feel light,” he laces up his cleats and watches his old highlights, catch after catch lighting up his screen. Headphones on, he queues calm music, then progressively adds more energetic songs as game time approaches. He prays with his parents, then prays by himself to set his mind right. At this point, kickoff’s right around the corner.Before he takes the field, he downs a ginger shot. Now, he’s ready.“I like to just get my mind off the game before the game even starts,” Collins-Howard said.That routine molded Collins-Howard — a wideout at Rush-Henrietta Senior High School — into a three-star recruit and New York’s seventh-best prospect in the 2027 class, according to 247Sports. In his junior season, he impressively tallied 28 receptions for 445 yards and six touchdowns, plus two punt-return touchdowns and a kickoff-return score. Football isn’t the only sport Collins-Howard excels in. In 2025, he won the New York spring outdoor track state championship in the boys’ 100-meter race and 4×100-meter relay. But football’s the only sport that landed him a collegiate scholarship. On March 25, Collins-Howard committed to Syracuse, turning down offers from Akron, Buffalo, Temple and UMass-Amherst, among others. “Sky’s the limit for him,” Rush-Henrietta coach Bruce Johnson said.Collins-Howard started playing football at age 5, beginning with flag football and Pop Warner leagues. Growing up in Henrietta, he played with the same group of guys throughout his childhood, but that changed when he transferred to the Aquinas Institute, a private school in Rochester. <figure><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=2AEI5x_1Gy08Ndz00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=2AEI5x_1Gy08Ndz00" width="1179" height="786" ></figure>Collins-Howard’s trainer was the head coach at Aquinas, and he became an immediate starter as a freshman. That same year, he received his first offer to play Division I football at Syracuse. But after his sophomore year at Aquinas, Collins-Howard returned home to play at Rush-Henrietta Senior High School alongside his old friends. “For him, it was like it was homecoming,” Johnson said. Collins-Howard’s home has always been central to his career. Not just the place, but the people, too.Whether praying with him before a game or filming him from all angles during, his parents — Terrance Collins-Howard and Natalya Collins-Howard — have always been in his corner. So, when it came time to decide where he’d continue his football career, Syracuse, around an hour from Henrietta, was the obvious choice. “They were pretty much the main school that was always showing me love,” Collins-Howard said. “It feels like family whenever they come up and visit me.” When Collins-Howard joins Syracuse’s roster, his speed might be his biggest asset. He said his speed allows him to lose defenders in open space, and his catch radius helps him make plays in traffic. “You can’t really teach speed,” Collins-Howard said. “It’s something you’re born with.”But Collins-Howard’s speed isn’t the only quality he brings to Syracuse. He also prides himself on being down-to-earth off the field. “He can fly,” Rush-Henrietta Director of Athletics Jeffrey Onze added. “And he’s humble and kind.”As Rush-Henrietta’s captain this season, Collins-Howard strives to lead by example. Johnson leans on him to guide his younger teammates and take them under his wing. But Collins-Howard aims to help people away from the field, too. He spends his free time volunteering at his local food pantry and went on a mission trip to Ghana a few years ago. Alongside his family, he donated money to build a borehole in a village there. The girls in the village walked for miles each day to find freshwater, Collins-Howard said, so they couldn’t go to school. Now, with his family’s donation, they can get an education.“He can almost not do any harm to anybody,” Johnson said. “(He) just wants to help everybody and just make the world a better place.”Similarly, in a few months, he’ll aim to help the Orange on and off the field anyway he can.“(Syracuse head coach) Fran Brown does a lot of community service,” Collins-Howard said. “So bringing more of that service to the team, having different experiences like that will also help the team out.”</div></body>

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