James Melton delivered a Friday night football moment that will be difficult to forget.

The 14-year-old high school player, who runs on a prosthetic leg, scored a touchdown during his team’s first game of the season.

The memorable play happened on a brand new field.

Melton, a freshman, took the handoff, found his way into the end zone, and completed a moment that once appeared impossible.

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His teammates quickly poured in after the score.

The stands erupted as Melton celebrated the first high school touchdown of his young football career.

NBC Nightly News aired the clip with Hallie Jackson, taking the freshman’s remarkable touchdown beyond the field and its cheering crowd.

The footage captured Melton finishing the play before being surrounded by his teammates in the end zone.

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“My first touchdown in high school is just overwhelming,” Melton said.

His reaction matched the size of a moment that came in his first game of the season and immediately put his first touchdown in the record book.

Melton has been moving with one prosthetic for nearly his entire life.

Doctors amputated his leg when he was 22 months old because he was born with a rare condition.

Four months after the amputation, Melton was walking again.

He has continued moving forward ever since, eventually carrying the football into the end zone as a freshman high school player.

Collin Rugg posted the viral video that pushed the touchdown across X.

The clip showed Melton taking the handoff, completing the run, and celebrating with teammates after reaching the end zone.

Melton also shared the simple rule that has guided him.

“Never give up and always keep pushing.”

The touchdown was not presented as a charity handoff at the end of a blowout.

NBC framed the play as a freshman living the dream shared by football players who want their own chance to score.

Melton got open and reached the end zone against players who have had two legs their entire lives.

He made the score look like another Friday night football play, even though NBC said such a moment once felt impossible.

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A freshman who has used a prosthetic for almost his entire life took the ball and found the end zone in his team’s opening game.

The season had only just started, but Melton had already produced an unforgettable first.

His first touchdown came on a brand new field, with teammates rushing toward him and the stands exploding around the moment.

The video showed exactly why the touchdown traveled so widely.

Melton did not stop at the obstacles in front of him, and the freshman finished the job when his opportunity arrived.

At only 14, he turned his team’s first game of the season into a Friday night moment that quickly reached viewers far beyond the stadium.

A high school player with one prosthetic and one direct rule stole the night.

James Melton kept pushing, scored his first touchdown and gave the opening game of his freshman season a finish that will not be forgotten.

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