(S25) - PT 3 - Early Decisions

[Briedaqueduc]

SHL PT Affiliation

[QuirkyTurtle]

Eddie Jeeta grew up in Watford, United Kingdom. Without much to his families name, Eddie would play football in the streets with friends until finally his high school introduced a football team he could join. Originally started at the cornerback positions but as he grew up, it was evident in his hand size that he would have a gift at catching the football and was moved to receiver where he excelled. So much so that he received a few scholarships to American Universities where he would begin his college football era. With relatives in Florida, Eddie decided to attend the University of Florida and become a Florida Gator. To begin his freshman year, Eddie was quite the outcast as a foreigner playing an American sport, and this affected his performance on the practice field and would see him begin his freshman year dead last on the depth chart. Later that year, a fellow teammate at the receiver position would hurt himself and opened up a spot for Jeeta to see some game time. He would make the most of that day, catching all 6 targets for 105 yards and a score. From then on, Jeeta was not an outcast and excelled in both ensuing seasons, where he would exceed 1000 yards and double digit TDs in both seasons. After an exceptional Junior season, Jeeta decided to skip his Senior season and enter the DSFL Draft.

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[xenosthelegend]

Fencik's path to the pros is one not many have done, only one human can say they walked onto a prospect bowl team, never played any kind of sport, and ended up winning the Ultimini in their first season in the DSFL. That human is Jake Fencik. In high school Fencik played a lot of league of legends, he was hardstuck gold and claimed he could hit platinum if he tried to. Fencik would get very tilted playing league of legends, as a way of getting out his anger, he kicked footballs. He went to his local community college, where they had no football team. Fencik continued kicking field goals in college, eventually they became a method of fun for him, and he started trying to get them through the uprights. Once he became good at getting them in, it became how many could he get in a row. Fencik's record from <20 was 60 in a row, he got bored after the 60th. Then he moved up to 20-29 yards, After a few months he was able to get 60 in a row. From 30-39 yards Fencik never got 60 in a row, but he did get 57. Fencik was invited to the prospect bowl after a clip of him drop kicking a 60 yard field goal went viral on twitter. Fencik's first prospect bowl game was his first game of organized football ever.

[Sermokala]

PBE PT

[Tomasnz]

Chet Larson Didn't go to traditional college, as he is a Danish national who moved to the USA for the draft process.  Therefore his journey is a little different from many of this team mates and s26 class mates. 

He was working as an apprentice electrician and general tradesman in Denmark, before he made the decision to give fully professionally. 

Playing in the European leagues for the Odense Badgers, gave Chet plenty of challenging days and weeks to overcome especially as his coaches worked his natural physicality around the price with a number of position changes. Chet never played at high school, so he has been able to take a more theory lead approach to developing. In fact it was this analylictical approach that led his coaches to try him at linebacker. 

His first season as a linebacker was rough, but as the conditioning and muscle mass began to increase again his comfort in the middle of the defense trying to read and predict the offensive moves. Being able execute scheme concepts and being ready to control a shallow zone  or being ready to either close a running gap or see the opportunity to sack the QB.

Chet wasn't drafted, so it is hard to tell if his non traditional college experience. Pick up by waivers he has quickly established himself as a impactful rookie.

[r0tzbua]

At first Guy Fields starting playing soccer in high school before he ever even thought about football. After a bit it became clear that this would not be his sport, so he switched over to the football program playing as Linebacker and Safety. While he enjoyed the safety position, he always felt more comfortable as a Linebacker and played mostly in defense, although he saw some action in Special Teams.

He was being regarded a 4-star recruit, so he got many offers in his last year of high school. His final decision came down to chose between Northwestern and Washington State. While both universities feature great football programs, he decided to stay at home in his state of Illinois and play for the Northwestern Wildcats.

Guy worked his way up the depth chart in his Freshman season working mostly in coverage but had problems at stopping the run game. So most of his off-season work was focussed on becoming a complete package at Linebacker and less focus on the pass game and even learning more about Blitz Packages and blitzing itself. In his Junior season he had to sit out the last 4 games while he suffered an injury to his shoulder. In his last college season he would still be used mostly in coverage and recorded 6 interceptions and won the Pinstripe bowl with his team.

[KoltClassic]

Attending Michigan State University was hardly Otis Allen’s dream when growing up. Allen was born in Dothan, Alabama to two Auburn alumni who were die-hard Tigers fans throughout his years growing up. Although he spent his formative years in Detroit, Michigan, his parents always wore their fandom on their sleeve. Every Saturday morning you would be sure to see the Allen family hanging their Auburn football flag on their front porch for game day. Second to Auburn, Allen sought out the University of Michigan as a collegiate destination. Past their track and field program which Allen heard great things about, many friends and athletes that Otis interacted with while growing up dreamed of being a Wolverine. When Allen became a standout shot put and discus athlete during his junior and senior years of high school he thought that he was a shoe-in for a starting spot on the Wolverine track and field team. While he did get offered a full ride scholarship to UofM, due to a projected “log jam” of talent on the team Allen was not projected to be a starting representative for the team from day 1. This led Otis to make the difficult decision to choose a scholarship to Michigan State University where he would attend and soon after walk on to the football team.

[ReverendOReily]

Ever since he was a young boy wrestling gators in the swamps of wherever Shrek is from Louisiana, Richard Leaking has been a big fan of the Stanford Cardinal. He was amazed that a world renowned school with such a rigorous academic program had an excellent academic program to match. You simply don't see the other top academic institutions in this country field such high quality football teams the way Stanford does; after all, how many Rose Bowls have Harvard or Massachusetts Institute of Technology won? That's right. None. Poor guys can't even qualify. Richard Leaking was a walk-on on the Stanford Cardinal football team, but he very quickly rose to the top of the depth chart, and by his final season at Stanford, he was a defensive captain in charge of shouting out random audible words with the best of them. Leaking actually did not even play linebacker in High School; he was two-way player who played fullback on offense, and strong safety on defense. Between the end of high school and the beginning of his first season at Stanford, however, he grew 4 inches and put on 35 pounds, which enabled him to switch from safety to linebacker with ease at the encouragement of his coaches. Leaking's hands had never been his strong suit, so he was glad to make the switch at the time.

[JBLAZE_THE_BOSS]

Mike Boss Jr. did not have what would be called the “Typical” recruitment effort put forth towards him. Always living in the shadow of his father, Boss Jr. was always in the spotlight where there were scouts watching him as early as Pop Warner Football when he was 10. There was surely a lot of pressure on the young signal caller from an early age, but he took it in stride and made it work for him. Knowing that schools would want to have him, if anything for the name recognition, Boss Jr. milked out as many recruitment visits as he could. Hawaii, Arizona, UCLA, USC, Florida, Florida State, and of course his ultimate choice of Miami, all had their hat in the ring for his services. The amount of cannabis and clam that was thrown at him during those recruitment meetings would make Wilt Chamberlain blush. Boss Jr. lived it up big time while at The U, so much so that he had no problem taking money from the many boosters of the Hurricanes program. Boss Jr was one of the only students on campus who bought an $80,000 dollar vehicle with their own money, as most of them had to use the shameful $65,000 automobiles gifted to them by their parents. Boss Jr. lived it up in college and now is working on keeping the local brothel workers away from him on gamedays in Tijuana. Boss Jr. finished second place in last year’s “Most Generous Customer” contest at “Casa de Coochie”, a popular whorehouse in Tijuana. NBA star Jimmy Butler took home the crown for the third straight year. [271]

[Raven]

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Written Option: Everyone starts somewhere, and for most players, the path to the pros picks up in earnest in college. Why did your player decide to go to the college they did (or not go at all)? Were they highly recruited, or did they walk on to the program? How long did it take your player to break into the starting roster of the college? If they played a different position in high school, what was the transition between positions like? Detail your player’s experiences, and be creative.

Davriel enjoyed getting many offers from college's all across the country in his senior year of high school. However deciding where he would end up going to was a tough nut to crack. Maybe of these school presented and offered state of the art training facilities and amazing coaches with a ton of experience in growing youngsters to meet their highest potential. They would all lead to the same final goal, playing in the NSFL. So how does one choose between schools which offer basicly the same opportunities to the majors?

Well at the end of the day the decision was completely based on which team had the best team name and logo. Davriel had always liked Rams and green always had been his favorite colour, so the Colorado State University offered exactly what Davriel was looking for. He was able to start off straight away as one of the starting players aswell. Which is only a bonus being able to show yourself to the scouts as early as possible. This unusual choosing method ended up working out for Lavigne as he is now enjoys being one of the starting safeties for the Honolulu Hahalua. All for just picking which mascot he liked the best.