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'17 UW offeree ATH Salvon Ahmed (Juanita HS)
JamesChristianson
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I know that 2015's signings are just a few days away. Yet, I cannot help but to imagine the possibility of UW
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
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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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
http://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/H/HallDa20.htm
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.
My life hasn't been the same since.
If the OP really wants an opinion, post some game film (elevated, not field level), and the interested TBSers on this board will bite. Case in point......Fotu Leiatoleileiamuna.
If I took you literally ("it shows NOTHING"), then high schools and colleges should never practice...they should just scrimmage 100% of the time to figure out their depth charts. The fact is that some drills, and some game-LIKE scenarios do show A LITTLE something...or else they wouldn't put up a depth chart BEFORE a game and announce starters BEFORE game 1 of the season. Colleges can't know how well a kid is gonna do in college until he actually plays in college after he's recruited. So, everything you know before he suits up at a D1 school has SOME value.
BTW, during hoop tryouts, they will do 3 on 2 drills as part of the process to evaluate who gets cut and who stays.
Hudl does a great job of this. I know they don't shoot the video, and as rough as their editing can be, they are simple, shot at the right angle (for the most part) and usually allow an evaluator enough footage to evaluate a player's game performance. And they don't have any of the soccer mom fluff, which is a complete waste of time if the purpose of the video is recruiting.
As for the 3 on 2 basketball analogy, I'm not talking about junior high sports. I'm talking about D1 sports. Please enlighten me on any major college coach who uses 3 on 2 drills as part of the process to evaluate their players or recruits. Do they use layup drills as part of that process as well?