Eric Dickerson, best high school player ever?

They are sooooo many great high scholl backs.......but he has to be considered in the top 5 of any list.
 
CATCH17 said:
Impressive numbers but it was CLASS A.


Emmitt Smith, Earl Cambell, Billy Simms, all great Highschool backs.
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You miss the point that he was a QB? He put up those numbers from the QB position in a single wing. He rarely played the 2nd half of games.

His story is amazing. Read the link I posted. That's just a highlight link. Look him up sometime. A high school kid who ran a 9.4 100 and a 4.3 40 plus could shot put 54 feet.

It's a shame people don't know of him. A bigger shame that just learning about him you feel the need to criticize without knowing.
 
Ben Mauk has to get some consideration when talking about high school careers or even single seasons.

He had almost 1400 yards rushing in '02. That's a heckuva season considering he threw for over 6500 yards.
 
I remember reading an SI article saying Herschel was considered the only guy who could have gone straight to the pros from HS.
 
Ken Hall is considered the best high player ever. Eric came along after me. Eric played for Sealy High School in Texas. He was timed in 9.3 hundred yard dash and 10.3 one hundred meters. Eric played for the Rams, with Johnny Johnson from LaGrange, Texas played for the Rams also Billy Watty from Wallisville. I am seven years older than Eric and I was classfied as a 10.6 hundred meter sprinter and ran a 4.43 forty. Eric was probably a 4.38 to a 4.40 in the forty. This area begining at Kathy Texas westward to Seguin, Texas during the late seventies to 1983 produced several professional football players and sprinters and is also home to Jimmy Hines in BrenHam Texas one of the World's Fastest Humans.
 
I saw Reggie Bush play as a junior, at our homecoming game (I'm class of 82/Helix High) and he was so good that it was a boring game to watch...it was like he was playing against pee wees.
 
there are so many great high school football players... it is hard to say who is best.

there are so many great college football players.... it is hard to say who is the best.


having said as much......billy sims would own the nfl rushing title had it not been for his knees being destroyed.
 
Ken Hall still rules the roost in regards to great HS players...

I have been fortunate enough to see many of the greats as I am a HS football junkie...

I personally saw Vince Young, Billy Sims, Craig James, Reggie McNeill, Earl Campbell, Eric Dickerson, Adrian Peterson... etc... all were amazing...

The thing you have to consider is this... most colleges offer scholarships to any kid they want to keep off of other teams rosters...

The best player I ever saw was a kid out of Harleton, a RB, named Keyou Craver... amazing RB... he went to Nebraska and they made him a DB and screwed him royally... he played for the Saints for a couple years...
 
a couple of years ago, either Parade magazine or USA Today who proclaimed Emmitt Smith the best high school player of the last 25 years..

and I read a credible High School football publication a few years ago that stated that Emmitt was the best player of the last 50 years..

sorry for the lack of details.. I read the articles, but it was a couple of years ago..
 
My brother played against Hershel Walker in High school. He said that the guy was absolutely unstoppable. He said that Hershel averaged two broken bones per defense a game throughout the season. A man playing with boys.
 
Jim Brown was supposedly a phenomenal HS football player and reportedly averaged something like 15 yards per CARRY.

When he went to Syracuse they had a hard time convincing the coaching staff to play him because of his race and a prior black running back who played for the team and got booted off of campus for continuing to break the law.

The other thing about Brown is many consider him the greatest lacrosse player of all time and he supposedly would have been an All American basketball player at Syracuse if they had let him play basketball.

Ron Dayne also had some ridiculous numbers in HS in New Jersey.

Oh yeah, I believe Shawn Alexander ran for something like 4,000 yards and 50+ TD's in his senior year in Kentucky.


Rich.........
 
trickblue said:
The best player I ever saw was a kid out of Harleton, a RB, named Keyou Craver... amazing RB... he went to Nebraska and they made him a DB and screwed him royally... he played for the Saints for a couple years...
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Good stuff, TB...

Not to get the thread off track, but I'm a Nebraska fan and I thought Craver was going to be a really good NFL corner... I'll admit to hoping we would draft him. :eek::

But maybe he would have good been if he'd stayed off the drugs. :(
 
Well, I remember Hershel playing at Georgia his Freshman year and he was awsome, no question. Having said that, the best HS Football Player, Athlete I ever saw was Deion Sanders at North Fort Myers. He could do it all. He could play every sport and he was simply the best at everything he ever tried. He was amazing to the point of disbelief. I never saw Bo Jackson play HS sports so I don't know how he compared but I'll tell you that he too was exceptional at Auburn.

Ken Hall was the best ever but I never saw him play. My father always believed he was. Hershel was Hershel and Bo was Bo but for me, the best player I ever saw play HS football was Deion Sanders.
 
Hostile said:
You miss the point that he was a QB? He put up those numbers from the QB position in a single wing. He rarely played the 2nd half of games.

His story is amazing. Read the link I posted. That's just a highlight link. Look him up sometime. A high school kid who ran a 9.4 100 and a 4.3 40 plus could shot put 54 feet.

It's a shame people don't know of him. A bigger shame that just learning about him you feel the need to criticize without knowing.
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If ANYONE put up those kinds of numbers at a workout, combine, pro day, or stinkin' cottilion, 90% of the posters on this board would demand that the 'Boys draft him on day 1.:D Those numbers are made even more impressive when you consider Hall's size (6'1"/205). That's about the size of the average NFL RB. And don't forget that he could long jump 23' as well.:bow: Wow.
 
StanleySpadowski said:
This is a great link if you're interested.

www.nflhs.com/news/records/default.asp

It list that "official" all-time high school records.
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Great site. I only looked at the offensive stats....

I played against one player on that list...

Kenny James. Simply amazing. If he wasn't rusing for 7 TDs in a half, he was returning an int for a TD, a fumble, A KO, or a PR.

Played against him 3 times.....we couldn't touch him. We did win Valley in 2000 though.....I lost my friggin ring though....that sucked.
 
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