Lincoln's Dehonta Hayes: A Gem being Overlooked?

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Lincoln's Dehonta Hayes: A Gem being Overlooked?

The outstanding play of Dehonta Hayes warrants more attention from the Pac-12, write James Christianson from Under the Radar.

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Tequilla

Kind of player that you'd like to see potentially take a preferred walk-on offer from the UW with the opportunity to earn a full scholarship if warranted on the field.

Dennis_DeYoung

WSU's "glory days" were filled with kids like this guy. He's definitely capable.

If he's an A student, we should definitely try to get him to walk on.

RoadDawg55

Does he have any offers from FCS school like Eastern or Montana?

5'11" 190 with 4.4 speed combined with production and no offers from anyone? James, are those accurate or are they self reported?

JamesChristianson

RoadDawg55: His height and weight came from MaxPrep's roster. The 4.4 speed was reported to me by a coach when I could not find it online. And, of course, I observed it when seeing him run by other players on the field with known 4.5 speed (like Gaskin). To be clear, I was not saying he has no offers. I am just surprised there are none from Pac 12 schools (that I have heard). The latest report on offers that I can find was a July 11, 2014 article on NEI quoting Hayes as saying he has offers from Navy, Eastern WA, Montana St., Montana, Portland ST., UTEP & UC Davis. Four months later, he self-reported that he had 7 offers and that he would wait until signing day to commit. In November, he stated that he had been talking to Arizona, Cal, UW and WSU, but no offers. He was a 2014 pre-season, all-state pick (TNT) and was the NW College Showcase DB MVP in 2013 when Austin Joyner was there. So, it seems there was great attention surrounding Hayes early in high school. But, that attention seemed to fade this year, for some unapparent reason.

EwaDawg

Tequila long. Read. Good stuff. Would love to see him become a preferred walk on at UW.

JamesChristianson

RoadDawg55 said:

Does he have any offers from FCS school like Eastern or Montana?

5'11" 190 with 4.4 speed combined with production and no offers from anyone? James, are those accurate or are they self reported?

I see that Wyoming and Nevada have been added to the list...making a total of 4 FBS and 5 FCS college offers.

FremontTroll

We need another WR/S. Any chance we are interested but keeping it quiet?

This article doesn't square with his offers. So either there is something else going on, he has some obvious limitation (size?), or he just wasn't really that dominant.

Doogles

FremontTroll said:

We need another WR/S. Any chance we are interested but keeping it quiet?

This article doesn't square with his offers. So either there is something else going on, he has some obvious limitation (size?), or he just wasn't really that dominant.

Prognosticators generally like to be right. It's hard to believe he would be preseason all-state and then not get awarded after such a dominant season. Even if there were off the field issues that were hurting his recruitment, the lists and accolades aren't going to reflect them.

Not saying he's not a player or an idiot, so don't twist.

HuskyInAZ

Walk on at best.

doogsinparadise

Hips?

dehonta

I just wanted to thank you for this article my family and I loved every part of it .. Hitting this situation right on the head, for most of you wondering im just as confused as the rest of you . I have perfect grades (3.7 accum) , I have the speed , athleticism, I have just been overlooked . But I will shine once again in college

HuskyInAZ

Not a fan of this thread. Is this a place for aspiring HS athletes to get exposure or TBS companies who do videos for those athletes? I sure hope not.

FWIW, I wish nothing but the best for Dehonta.

RoadDawg55

Watch at 7:24 of the highlights of the game (2nd video). A player on Lincoln drops a pick and the ref calls it a fumble that Lincoln returns for a score. I wish Lincoln would have won the game, but that was probably the worst call I have ever seen.

I wish the best for Dehonta too. I hope you get the Pac 12 offer, but you have some pretty good offers to be grateful for. The NFL is full of players that went to smaller schools.

MakaDawg

Kid's got wheels, and speed kills.

Doogles

RoadDawg55 said:

Watch at 7:24 of the highlights of the game (2nd video). A player on Lincoln drops a pick and the ref calls it a fumble that Lincoln returns for a score. I wish Lincoln would have won the game, but that was probably the worst call I have ever seen.

I wish the best for Dehonta too. I hope you get the Pac 12 offer, but you have some pretty good offers to be grateful for. The NFL is full of players that went to smaller schools.

Can't really tell from the angle, but that looked like a bubble screen play so maybe it was one of those borderline he threw it backwards calls. Either way, that's why you stick with it and maybe full the refs on the 50-50 call.

RoadDawg55

Doogles said:

RoadDawg55 said:

Watch at 7:24 of the highlights of the game (2nd video). A player on Lincoln drops a pick and the ref calls it a fumble that Lincoln returns for a score. I wish Lincoln would have won the game, but that was probably the worst call I have ever seen.

I wish the best for Dehonta too. I hope you get the Pac 12 offer, but you have some pretty good offers to be grateful for. The NFL is full of players that went to smaller schools.

Can't really tell from the angle, but that looked like a bubble screen play so maybe it was one of those borderline he threw it backwards calls. Either way, that's why you stick with it and maybe full the refs on the 50-50 call.

The WR is moving upfield so I think it was still a bad call, but I wasn't paying attention to it possibly being a lateral.

Dennis_DeYoung

The bottom line here is that if that POS Ben-Hurr is worth a scholly, Dehonta is. Also, Dehonta's got to learn to wrap up. He kill-shots everyone, which is okay until it's not.

sarktastic

Dennis_DeYoung said:

WSU's "glory days" were filled with kids like this guy. He's definitely capable.

If he's an A student, we should definitely try to get him to walk on.

*back in the days when WSU would use their taxpayer subsidy on in-state players?

JamesChristianson

HuskyInAZ said:

Not a fan of this thread. Is this a place for aspiring HS athletes to get exposure or TBS companies who do videos for those athletes? I sure hope not.

FWIW, I wish nothing but the best for Dehonta.

I think this article is appropriate because:

(1) We are approaching signing day.
(2) This is a UW-oriented website and a good portion of the content/forums on HardcoreHusky is devoted to recruiting, including "the ones that got away".
(3) Dehonta is a local 3-star athlete who is in UW's back yard.
(4) It seems that Dehonta is a Pac12 caliber player.
(5) When Dehonta has been on the field with 4-star UW commits, he was the best player on the field, in do-or-die playoff games (you could regularly hear Jon Kitna in post-game talks stating that Dehonta carried the team or put the team on his back, and we know that Lincoln was loaded).

Only time will tell, for sure, how well Dehonta pans out in college (as is the case with any 5-star recruit or a 1-star recruit). But, it seems to be the appropriate time and place to write up an article like this in a forum like this.

puppylove_sugarsteel

Pretty simple really Chrissysen, you don't know what the f*** you're looking for