Crootin': Joey Velazquez
Sam Webb featured an interesting visitor from the past weekend. He is currently commited to play Baseball for osu - super centerfield prospect. However, he recently released a football HUDL page and has attracted a, lot of attention. He is about 6 feet+, 210 lbs and can run. Michigan is recruiting him as a Viper = Khaleke 2.0.
Very little football scouting on him as he was seen as exclusively a basball player but the tape is impressive. JH has told him that he can play both sports here and he is very interested.
Obviously a tough pull from osu but Webb thinks we have a good shot.
https://www.hudl.com/video/3/7250245/5ab85ef5d45e5b0db41e5875
You mean a few hundred. I'd venture to guess that no major sport combination is more common than football and baseball.
Oh possibly. The specific skills in each sport (outside of just running) don't translate, but there's a correlation between baseball and football. My point isn't that hitting an outside pitch the other way is similar to anything in football, it's simply that the type of very athletic guy that is good at baseball is often good at football as well. Not sure exactly why, but there's a clear middle to that venn diagram.
Most likely where you'll find the fastest player on the team.
Many of the best football players of today and of all time have also been great baseball players.
let him play for coach B if he wants and roster him with the lacrosse team too.....
It is going to be VERY hard to play baseball and football. Baseball practices and has scrimmages during the entire football season.
at the same time actually. Gibby went all the way from a potential high draft pick in fb to being rated just behind Horner and Ricky did ok too for not having NFL chops.
Ok, that was 40 yrs ago. There are always exceptions, but none in a long time. Anything is possible and I wish him the best, but don't hold your breath.
skipping baseball as a true freshman.
I think golden Tate played both too
Don't forget Mike Gillette was the kicker/punter and catcher. However, what everyone is missing is that the NCAA scholarship rules changed. A long time ago scholarships were unlimited. The new rules would require a player to count against the FB 85 player limit AND the BB 12 player limit.
If a player was good enough for BB to use up an entire scholarship (almost every player only gets a partial) they would probably be drafted and playing in the big league. This won't happen.
Maybe you could provide a source, because everything I've seen says the complete opposite.
Quite a few football players run track.
Guys do it all the time...... well, Kurt Gibson did it, for one year, back in '78.
Ok, maybe it doesn't happen that often.
Russel Wilson is a fairly recent example.
His tape reminds me of Vinnie Sunseri at Alabama. I'll take that any day.
Does he prefer baseball a great deal? Seems odd that he would commit in baseball to an average baseball school yet be better at football.
I don't follow baseball recruiting, but maybe the commitments usually come earlier.
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... at least 10,000 points.
(Too soon?)
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April 24th, 2018 at 12:37 AM ^
Thank you.
I haven't read the whole thread, but Velazquez is a pretty dang good football player. I hope he plays football if he comes to Michigan. If he doesn't pick Michigan...I hope he plays baseball. He would be a very good box safety/Viper prospect.