'17 UW offeree ATH Salvon Ahmed (Juanita HS)
soon having their best shut down CB tandem since Dana Hall and Walt B. (By "soon", I mean in 2017).
Bellevue's Isaiah Gilchrist is the consensus #1 CB in WA and #4 on the West Coast. But, Juanita's Salvon Ahmed is looking just as good at CB (and at times even more impressive than Gilchrist) on their current Ford Sports Performance (FSP) 7on7 Select team practices and drills. Ahmed closes on receivers out of the breaks very quickly. He used his quickness and his 4.43 speed to sneak up on a WR and pick off Jacob Eason during an FSP practice this past Sunday, to the raves, hoots & hollers of his FSP teammates. No wonder the Dawgs already have offered him.
Ahmed was All-King Co. 1st Team RB as a sophomore. He told me, at this point, that he is open to whatever position a college wants him to play at. And if he ends up thinking like Austin Joyner, and UW can reel in Gilchrist and Ahmed, in back to back years, then the Huskies may have themselves a Hall-Bailey-caliber tandem again.
You can see Gilchrist and Salvon respectively, doing DB drills at a January 11 FSP practice, beginning at 1:39 in the clip below:
TSP 7v7 Practice with CB's Gilchrist & Ahmed
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This kid gets 5-Robotos from me. There's no eval needed. You see one play, you know he can play. He's got it all: fast, instincts, change-of-direction, size...
The only question is whether his mind is where it needs to be for him to become great.
However, I assume since we offered him immediately there he's an #OKG and there's not a lot of worry in Petersen's mind about that, because Pete doesn't seem into offering guys he doesn't think have the make-up to play in his system. #calvinthrockmorton #fotuletiao #shanelemieux -
I hope they are as good as truant and peters. Hall and bailey were good but they only had to cover WR's for like 2 seconds with that pass rush.
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The fact Hall played in the NFL for about 8 years says something.AtomicDawg said:I hope they are as good as truant and peters. Hall and bailey were good but they only had to cover WR's for like 2 seconds with that pass rush.
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Trufant and Peters are likely on their way to that as well assuming peters doesn't choke too many coaches. Both are likely 1st round picks.
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Hall and Bailey were good, but I agree with Atomic. Hall played 6 years in the NFL and didn't even start half of those games. Trufant is well on his way to a better career and I assume Peters will as well. In terms of pure talent, Trufant and Peters are as good of college corners as one could wish for. The only negative was Peters only got to play with Trufant as a freshman so they weren't at their peak at the same time like Hall and Bailey were.
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I think it worked both ways...because Bailey & Hall were so good with one-on-one, and needed no back up, Lambright could unleash every other defensive player at the opposing offense. Notice many of UW's sacks or TFL were by a defender who went unblocked because the line and blocking back(s) were outnumbered.AtomicDawg said:I hope they are as good as truant and peters. Hall and bailey were good but they only had to cover WR's for like 2 seconds with that pass rush.
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Good point. And that's the line of thinking I had in my post...a tandem that was playing together at their peaks. If you're talking about an NFL career being reflective of how good they were in college, I guess I could have said Hall-Mincy (10 yrs in NFL, mostly starting), which I actually think was an even better shut down combo, and was pretty evident in the 91 Rose Bowl.RoadDawg55 said:Hall and Bailey were good, but I agree with Atomic. Hall played 6 years in the NFL and didn't even start half of those games. Trufant is well on his way to a better career and I assume Peters will as well. In terms of pure talent, Trufant and Peters are as good of college corners as one could wish for. The only negative was Peters only got to play with Trufant as a freshman so they weren't at their peak at the same time like Hall and Bailey were.
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That's how you get a raise Christianson!JamesChristianson said:
Good point. And that's the line of thinking I had in my post...a tandem that was playing together at their peaks. If you're talking about an NFL career being reflective of how good they were in college, I guess I could have said Hall-Mincy (10 yrs in NFL, mostly starting), which I actually think was an even better shut down combo, and was pretty evident in the 91 Rose Bowl.RoadDawg55 said:Hall and Bailey were good, but I agree with Atomic. Hall played 6 years in the NFL and didn't even start half of those games. Trufant is well on his way to a better career and I assume Peters will as well. In terms of pure talent, Trufant and Peters are as good of college corners as one could wish for. The only negative was Peters only got to play with Trufant as a freshman so they weren't at their peak at the same time like Hall and Bailey were.
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@CharlesMincy was a (love-making) beast in college. One of my favorite players. For whatever reason, when I was growing up, I had a thing for defensive backs at UW. I particularly liked dudes that wore numbers under 20 for whatever reason (#just10yearoldthings).
Vestee Jackson, Le-Lo Lang, Tim Peoples, Vince Albritton, Ray Horton, J.C. Pearson... those were my dudes. That tradition continued with Dana Hall, Walter Bailey (I used to wish he would switch numbers to something in the single-digits)... I always thought we had badasses in the defensive backfield...
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Then Scottie Greenlaw happened.
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