So, say this is an honest 10.50, that’s excellent. Shades of Dick Metcalf. Like I said, football all the way. He will likely get bigger and probably slower from here on, but he should be able to crank some great relay legs for whatever college he’s at.
DB might be the right position for him…or TE if he has hands and gets even bigger. For WR I’ll take a lighter guy any day, like Rice or Moss. Seems to me like it would be pretty easy to get offensive pass interference calls against this guy as a WR, just do some soccer flopping😂
I had a friend just like that: 6-6, 235-245, he did some track but went into boxing as a heavyweight. When I was around 10.5-10.7, he was really close. Nigerian guy, great athlete. Should have done deca. No real fighting career, got into it too late. One of the best athletes I have ever known, this guy reminds me of him. Today he would be nfl, 100%.
Go Nyck💪
Strange he is being recruited as a DE 225 lbs is too light even as a starting point. They want him at DE because of his height and arm reach. If he wants to play in the NFL then LB, TE or WR are his best bets. The colleges don't care about that they want to use him at DE.
So, say this is an honest 10.50, that’s excellent. Shades of Dick Metcalf. Like I said, football all the way. He will likely get bigger and probably slower from here on, but he should be able to crank some great relay legs for whatever college he’s at.
DB might be the right position for him…or TE if he has hands and gets even bigger. For WR I’ll take a lighter guy any day, like Rice or Moss. Seems to me like it would be pretty easy to get offensive pass interference calls against this guy as a WR, just do some soccer flopping😂
I had a friend just like that: 6-6, 235-245, he did some track but went into boxing as a heavyweight. When I was around 10.5-10.7, he was really close. Nigerian guy, great athlete. Should have done deca. No real fighting career, got into it too late. One of the best athletes I have ever known, this guy reminds me of him. Today he would be nfl, 100%.
Go Nyck💪
Strange he is being recruited as a DE 225 lbs is too light even as a starting point. They want him at DE because of his height and arm reach. If he wants to play in the NFL then LB, TE or WR are his best bets. The colleges don't care about that they want to use him at DE.
Two -hundred -twenty-five pounds for high school DE at 6'5" is fine. It's routine for college weight training program to add 40 plus pounds of muscle.
Honestly at that size and speed he will make a lot more money playing football in college. If he likes both (football and track) even close to evenly I'd focus on football.
BTW - this is a fall-out of the piss poor way the USATF and TAC before it has handled track and field in this country for the last 50 years. Amateur'ish at best, incompetent at most probable. That a moderately top tier college football player propect could make significantly more than a top tier pro track athlete is due to how they have developed and handled the sport over the past few decades. When the commissioner/CEO of the sport's agency/league makes the most money in the sport it isn't being run right. Plain and simple.
Honestly at that size and speed he will make a lot more money playing football in college. If he likes both (football and track) even close to evenly I'd focus on football.
BTW - this is a fall-out of the piss poor way the USATF and TAC before it has handled track and field in this country for the last 50 years. Amateur'ish at best, incompetent at most probable. That a moderately top tier college football player propect could make significantly more than a top tier pro track athlete is due to how they have developed and handled the sport over the past few decades. When the commissioner/CEO of the sport's agency/league makes the most money in the sport it isn't being run right. Plain and simple.
Amen on that last part. Bolt would be a WR or doing Basketball full time if he grew up in the US. And who could blame him?
Harbor has huge potential in track though. I'm sure this thread has a few former collegiate sprinters. Or honestly, just collegiate runners in general, so you'll know that one of the first things you'll hear when you start training in college is to not expect to PR for the first 1-2 years - it's a serious training and lifestyle adjustment moving from HS to college.
The fact that Harbor was able to not only PR, but run two massive PRs, both VERY VERY fast (I think #1 true freshman in the US in the 200) while playing football in the fall and studying to be a neurosurgeon is straight up incredible. There is no other way to put it. Insane talent and potential, and I hope he at least gives track another 2-3 years because I could see him going REALLY, REALLY fast.
imagine the cognitive dissonance studying to be a neurosurgeon while simultaneously playing a sport where you're constantly micro-damaging your brain
if he stopped playing football, lost a few pounds and kept running i have to assume he'd be a lock to go sub-10 and sub-20, probably consistently at that
if he can actually make serious money playing football though, it's not really advisable to do track obviously