This dude's Dad is the best. More Fathers should invest in their child's education than in a roll of the dice of making it into the pros. That education never leaves or let's you down. Hand claps to my boy's Pop
While not as highly ranked in high school, the 2017 Alabama WR class wasn’t shabby. Jerry Jeudy, Henry Ruggs, and Devonta Smith. Unfortunately, Ruggs made a terrible decision and destroyed his legacy.
deharleyva ...or the famous “Tuskegee Experiments” where the U.S Medical Association asked for Black Male volunteers for a medical experiment with the promise of free medical treatment during & after for themselves & immediate family (if they needed medical treatment unrelated to their father or husband’s ailment) plus room & board during the span of the experiment. Poor Black Males from rural Alabama were injected with the viral bacteria that causes a vereneal disease to see how long after being infected it took to see symptoms & to document them. But the uproar was because a few researching doctors went rogue & instead of giving test subjects the antidote, which was penicillin (discovered to kill the Syphillis bacterial virus a few years prior) it was withheld to see how long it took for the disease to cause other stages such as lost of eye sight, &/or unconscious coma before treatment. Sometimes they withheld the antidote to document how long it took from being infected to death. Some died but most went blind, became sterile or their mental health was affected 100% percent. This went on for over 3 decades until it was caught & stopped. Specific laws were enacted & enforced because of these egregious acts towards poor African American Males & it wasn’t fully acknowledged by the United States until the Nineties ... Tuskegee is famous also for George Washington Carver & his inventions & discoveries, most done at his alma mater Tuskegee Institute (Now University), an H.B.C.U located in Alabama... 👍🏾
Chadwicked B .... Best damn Pilots in the Army Air Corps during WWII !! My Paternal Grandfather, although not an official Tuskegee trained pilot flew with them in Europe from 1942 until the end of the war. He was an Allied Pilot, trained in Liverpool, England 🏴 by the British Royal Air Force. My Grandfather is from Belize, a country in Central America on the Coast of the Caribbean Sea. Back in 1943, Belize was a colony of the Crown, Great Britain 🇬🇧 under Queen Elizabeth II. When Germany declared War on France, The U.S & Great Britain, England had young men between 20 & 25 who had finished their studies at University level who wanted to learn to fly & defend the crown to go to their town’s city hall so that they could see if they were eligible via birth papers and could past their physicals & mental assessment before being inducted in England’s Armed Forces. This was done in every colony of Great Britain including Jamaica 🇯🇲, Trinidad 🇹🇹 &Tobago, The British Virgin Islands 🇻🇬, Fiji 🇫🇯, New Zealand 🇳🇿, Australia 🇦🇺, Hong Kong 🇭🇰, India 🇮🇳 Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦 and 2 provinces in Canada 🇨🇦 (remember this is 1942). After training my grandfather unit was assigned to Italy (I forget the town at this moment) & flew several Allied missions alongside their regiment. I can remember him telling me that during the war, It was the first time he ever experienced racism & name calling & it wasn’t from captured German flyers from the Luftwaffe. It was from his own so called Allied Caucasian American flyboys. So sorry I turned my comment into a short essay but it brought back memories of my Grandfather & his war stories... 🙂👍🏾
Pryor can be a great backup qb and needs to be utilized for trick plays more often. He got 1000 yards his first year as a receiver and people say he's no good. He's such an underrated player in my opinion.
Calhoun is a perfect example about hype goes nuts when a helmet school offers. He ran a 4.9 40 at a one of those prospect camps. It was no surprise to a lot of people who follow TX HS football recruiting in detail that he didn't make it.
I met Patrick Petersen while a marshal at a celebrity Pro Am golf tournament here in Orlando and he is one of the nicest guys you’ll ever meet. Oh, and a very good golfer as well.
Justin Fields.... as a Georgia fan, I’ve been so hyped over this kid for the past few years but leave it to Kirby and crew to let him rot on the bench his Freshman season and now he’s transferred to OSU and will probably win the Heisman within 2 years. The kid will be a star and we lost out big time letting him walk
Ohhh Da'Quan. As a Clemson fan, with him it's always "what could have been". Guy was absolutely insane when he wanted to be. Much like you said, alot like Clowney in the sense of when he wanted to try, he was unstoppable. But often would take plays off. One of those deals where things in high school were so easy for him that he never perfected his craft or developed new pass rush moves.
I was driving home listening to this and had to stop to hear about Jermie Calhoun. Dude was a freaking legend here in Van. I remember when his little brother got into high school and all the hype about it, sadly never amounted to anything because of injuries. It's one of those what if moments everyone wished they got to see.
As a Ravens fan I’ll say that Will Hill was way more than a ST player for us. He’d be a starter to this day if not for continually failing drug tests. He was really good in single coverage against TEs and a physical presence against the run.
That Will Hill play was nuts. I was hanging out with my friend Will, funny enough. And he’s a huge ravens fan. He was checking the score on his phone and the game cast said that the browns had attempted a field goal but it was taking forever to load and he kept wondering if there was a penalty, and then I said out loud “ what if they blocked it and ran it back for a touchdown?” And that’s exactly what happened.
@@mpound97 White man here - can confirm. Will Hill was certainly troubled. A lot of youths like Will hill struggle when coming from background in poverty or broken homes. It is not an issue unique to black teens but socio-economically speaking, especially in sports, they get a fair share of the spotlight.
@@Mentek86 The median home price in most of that area of NJ is high. It's right outside Manhattan. $411k gets you a 2 bedroom 1.5 bath house there. Median home price is no indicator of status in that area of the country. As a matter of fact, here is a pic showing what West Orange looks like: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Orange,_New_Jersey#/media/File:Main_Street,_West_Orange,_New_Jersey.jpg Look, I'm not saying Will was a poor black kid raised by a single mom living in a tiny house surrounded by crime, I'm just saying that is not an uncommon narrative in college athletics. Many athletes DO come from that background. I'm only refuting your point because I do not think it's accurate.
Daquan Bowers was a beast in high school. I remember attending a high school combine but pretty much all the recruits were there to see him. He looked like a man among boys out there... A some ten years ago... Time flies!
Julio could become arguably the greatest wr an history. In his 8 years, he averages 90.4 yards per game, and if he keeps that averages for the next 8 years, he will pass Jerry Rice in receiving yards, having the most of all time. He also just became the 5th receiver in history to have three straight 1,500 yard seasons. He also recently passed Calvin Johnson, with the fastest wr in history to reach 10,000 yards receiving
Before starting on the Ravens Will Hill was a borderline pro bowl caliber safety with the NY Giants before they released him after two failed drug tests.
Great video! Puts all those high school players in perspective. Looking forward to how both Justin Fields and Trevor Lawrence play in college. Will be veerrrry interesting.
What you said about Pryor is.....exactly right. Buckeyes fans like myself do have a weird relationship with him. I kinda love him, kinda don't, and really wish for his sake that he would have given up on the QB dreams much earlier than he did. I think he is a much better receiver, though certainly not great, than he ever was as a QB. But he did make a very interesting career for himself, so I guess we have to call it a success, especially considering most of the other guys on this list never made it into the NFL.
I love this video man. Could you do more videos like these on the top ten players from a recruiting in different years. I have a couple of years that you can do on the top ten players in a recruiting class: 2005 2012 2013 2007 2009 2014 Thanks man
The thing about high school rankings now is its about what school you go to and what kind of connections your coach got. We had a guy in our team that was good but was only a first team district player getting small d2 offers he went to a bigger school doing the same thing and became a top 25 player mid season. All about connections and competition
I ran into DaQuan Bowers here in Myrtle beach about 2 years ago at a high school game. We played him in the lower state championship our senior year and went onto win the state title. I honestly hate it didn't work out for him but man, he was a beast in H.S.
Wait a couple of years on Justin Fields, I have a feeling something weird happened with him. From Georgia, committed to Penn State for some reason, then decommitted and went back to Georgia. That was a weird series of events, and I can't help but feel something fishy happened there.
I knew everything about this class at the time because I got pulled up as a freshman to play middle line backer by our schools greatest coach in history. Since that happened I got into recruiting big time. I remember Tom lemming was the main person I followed for recruiting. Good times lol
Will Hill was in one of my connected franchise series and I had no clue who he was lmao! He ended up being like the number 2 safety for the 3 seasons I had him
@@jakeadkins2034 Yeah, your stud RB who was sensational all game waving his hands like a mad man because he was wide open wasn't his fault either, huh?! Even if the receiver doesn't fall that's an insanely tight window to try to go to especially when it's compounded by Dobbins being WIDE OPEN.
I remember when Terrell Pryor was recruited by and down to Michigan and Ohio State. There was a story about how he came to the U of M campus in a convertible corvette and thought he was the hottest stuff around.
Watching this at the start of 2020 and the clip of Justin fields at the end as a teaser for the future is pretty cool after he was a Heisman finalist at OSU
RB Darrell Scott backed up Colorado RB Rodney Stewart, who I played with in Little League in Columbus, Ohio, for the Mifflin Sharks. Everybody knows him in Columbus as "Speedy." Because how fast he was.
I don't know why y'all are putting Scout on the list because they may be BY FAR the worst recruiting service in the country. Its funny how he has Fields at the end of the video as the #1 recruit when every other recruiting service has Trevor Lawrence. There is a reason why Georgia never recruited Fields until Lawrence committed to Clemson because Georgia went hard after Lawrence before they ever even considered offering Fields. You ask any college coach and Lawrence would be the guy every one of them would want and it wouldn't be close.
Your videos had been slipping into my recommended as of late. Good stuff. Found out you, too, were a Browns fan. You got my support. Great content, my guy!
I love your videos, but if you could make one about the NIU great Garrett Wolfe? I personally think you'll do an amazing job and people will learn that he was one of the best damn RBs in CFB history. Not to mention having a lackluster pro career lol. Definitely didn't live up to expectations.
Not sure why this was left out, but Will Hill was released by the Hamilton Tiger-Cats. He was suspended one game for grabbing an official by the collar in a game. Next weed at practice, the head coach at the time said “We want guys that understand what it means to be a teammate and play in a team sport”
Sometimes I forget how young people are. I heard in this video that he was surprised to see how these players have fared since that draft. Just wait till you start remembering, and thinking back about those players just coming into the league when they are retiring hopefully many years from now. Personally, I had that moment when Derek Jeter was retiring. I still had it in my head that he was this new kid on the yankees. I'm born and raised in the Bronx and I pretty much guarantee I'm older than most people in this comment section, so when something like that happens, you realize you're an official old man. For all you young guys, stay young. It sucks up here. Hold on to your youth it's tightly as you can for as long as you can and never let it go. I got to go take my Geritol now, love these videos, keep up the good work, cheers.
@@actsismmljcorrectlyobeyed6190 Given the time demands of how much they workout and practice, they are essentially full time employees as football players, but for which they get no salaried recompense. The players' skill is their athletic ability, and they aren't allowed to use it to earn money. Meanwhile, the college football industrial complex is a multi-billion dollar industry that doesn't adequately compensate its employees (players), while also tightly restricting and controlling the conditions of where and when they can work. And if you believe in free markets and capitalism why the hell shouldn't a player be able to sell his own image/jersey/autograph? Every other person in society is allowed to! Finally, the whole concept of 'amateurism' is a relic from the 19th century British aristocracy, where 'trying too hard' (i.e., being 'professional') was somehow seen as being 'unsporting', which is an easy attitude to take when you're wealthy and upper-class but doesn't have much relevancy to today's college athlete.
I think honestly the best receiver in the league is deandre hopkins or julio jones because deandre hopkins had so many yards even without an amazing quarterback
I subed to KTO when he was only at around 1k subs. I am glad he is doing well. His insight to the sport is much appreciated. Thanks man. Keep up the good work.
