Jason Brown

whatshouldicareabout said:

bananasnblondes said:

I could be wrong on Platt but I see another kid that developed earlier than his peers and looked like a 26 year old man as a sophomore in high school.

We've seen that way too many times with recruits coming from Washington state

Joel Dublanko syndrome?

He actually had a solid college career. Cinci made CFP and he was a final cut for the hawks last year. Was on an XFL roster more recently. I can admit I was wrong. That being said spandex Olympics and cross country tours of the spandex proprietors has gotten these kids offers from programs that would have never ventured west to take a look. Reading some of the twitter tea leaves, seems that Ahfua was likely a Georgia guy, but I'd venture that ship sailed. Also, yeah, some of these kids definitely peak in 10th grade. I give Dublanko credit for working at it, and improving.

HFNY said:

NEsnake12 said:

theknowledge said:

Hogan Hanson was a definite take and a big miss. Fox Crader may as well be from Eugene growing up in Vancouver and Platt seems like a good prospect but I’ll believe a kid from Yelm is going to be a great college player when I see it and I’m thinking he was looking for a coffee cup right off the bat. That’s not UW at this point. Outside of a rare few, Washington high school football has produced nothing but O. lineman and TEs the last decade. I’m just not busted up over it anymore.

Went through 247 to see any OL/TE from the last 10 cycles in WA who actually turned out good:
-Emeka Ebuka
-JTT
-Kyler Gordon
-Ali Gaye
-Taylor Rapp
-Myles Gaskin
-Budda Baker

7 total dudes. Lol

I'd add Joe Tyron to the list.

If Ali Gaye is on that list then Pilsbury dough boy from Spokane that destroyed UW while at Cal was a pretty great college player and Dublanko was a starter on a playoff team. Both were misses by … you guessed it, Bob Gregory. Imagine those two added on to the 17, 18 or 19 teams. FML.

theknowledge said:

WoolleyDoog said:

NEsnake12 said:

theknowledge said:

Hogan Hanson was a definite take and a big miss. Fox Crader may as well be from Eugene growing up in Vancouver and Platt seems like a good prospect but I’ll believe a kid from Yelm is going to be a great college player when I see it and I’m thinking he was looking for a coffee cup right off the bat. That’s not UW at this point. Outside of a rare few, Washington high school football has produced nothing but O. lineman and TEs the last decade. I’m just not busted up over it anymore.

Went through 247 to see any OL/TE from the last 10 cycles in WA who actually turned out good:
-Emeka Ebuka
-JTT
-Kyler Gordon
-Ali Gaye
-Taylor Rapp
-Myles Gaskin
-Budda Baker

7 total dudes. Lol

Dublanko was made fun of by the TBSers but would have been an upgrade at LB in recent years.

There's more than those guys, notably:

Kaleb McGary
Andre Dillard
Abe Lucas
Myles Jack
Drew Sample
Eason and Jake Luton drafted on arm talent alone
Shane Lemiuex unfortunately
Taylor Rapp
Ezra Cleveland
Evan Weaver
Salvon Ahmed
Hunter Bryant (good college player)
Henry Bainivalu (good senior year)
Calvin Throckmorton
Cade Otton

But holy shit once you hit like 2018 it's barren other than Egbuka, and to a lesser extent, JTT

We were conceding OL and TE, take them out and it’s pretty sparse.

I obviously missed that, but holy shit after 2017 the state talent at any position falls off a cliff.