Nice! Can he catch a football?

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KBVol said:
Think this is correct. Must be on a football scholly to play football...gone are the days of guys on track schollies playing in Neyland.
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The is why Todd Helton was the GOAT walk-on Baseball player in UT history.

Football Scholarship Players can walk-on to any other sport, but the reverse is not true.
 
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livefaith said:
Several over the years. Not Gatlin tho. His sprinting contemporary tho, Leonard Scott.

BTW, that kid looks really good on film. Good skills not just speed IMO.
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Richmond Flowers, Chip Kell, Karl Kremser, Willie Gault, Anthony Hancock, and many others. Football players have been on the track team for a long time. Chuck Rohe and Doug Dickey started recruiting combination track athletes/football players.

Rohe Track Era

Sam Graddy was a UT sprinter that played football as a wide receiver his senior year. He didn't catch a pass for Tennessee, but he played in the NFL for the Raiders.
 
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Track guys scare me a little. Josh Smith caught the ball his freshman year better than Leonard Scott did his whole career.
 
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Great sprinters rarely make great wide receivers. Bob Hayes did it... I don't know if anybody else has come close. Herschel Walker was a great sprinter and a great FOOTBALL player. Gault had (actually has... he's setting age group world sprint records) world class speed, was a great deep threat and kick returner, but had very average hands.
 
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chattavol420 said:
Ya. But he was a football player first and foremost
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Hunter is probably a better long jumper than football player, but football pays better.

Although he had a very good junior season, I don't think that Hunter as a receiver has returned to the level where he was before his knee was destroyed at Florida in 2011.
 
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Thunder Good-Oil said:
Great sprinters rarely make great wide receivers. Bob Hayes did it... I don't know if anybody else has come close. Herschel Walker was a great sprinter and a great FOOTBALL player. Gault had (actually has... he's setting age group world sprint records) world class speed, was a great deep threat and kick returner, but had very average hands.
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Well, kinda by definition "great" sprinters are rare enough in the first place. Then we have to juxtapose what qualifies as a "great" WR with that criteria.

The only guy besides Hayes that comes to mind that was really THAT fast and also a genuinely legit WR is Cliff Branch.
 
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hndog609 said:
Well, kinda by definition "great" sprinters are rare enough in the first place. Then we have to juxtapose what qualifies as a "great" WR with that criteria.

The only guy besides Hayes that comes to mind that was really THAT fast and also a genuinely legit WR is Cliff Branch.
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Maybe a better analogy would be guys that were great (or very good) sprinters FIRST that decided to try big time football. Renaldo Nehemiah is another that didn't pan out switching to a football career. He cashed in with the 49ers, but wasn't around very long.
 
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Or even better, not many that were first very good sprinters became good or better than average receivers. However, it doesn't hurt to put a speed threat on the field running deep routes to disrupt the defense even if they never touch the ball.
 
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Thunder Good-Oil said:
Maybe a better analogy would be guys that were great (or very good) sprinters FIRST that decided to try big time football. Renaldo Nehemiah is another that didn't pan out switching to a football career. He cashed in with the 49ers, but wasn't around very long.
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Hmmm, Hayes might actually be the only really good example of that happening.
 
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If I remember correctly Richmond Flowers was the person that got the NCAA looking into the rules on the scholarships. He was a 3 time All-American on our track team. Ran the hurdles. Missed the world record by 1/10th of a second. But best of all, his dad was the Attorney General of.......Alabama. Yeah
 
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