Over the next week we will be posting overviews of the 2014 Oregon and Washington updated rankings by position. All of us at NEI and the Barton Football Academy feel fortunate to be able to work with a majority of the region’s top athletes. There’s not a perfect ranking system, but we do our best based on all of the criteria listed. The Pacific Northwest is the fastest growing football…
6A (View preliminary Oregon 6A Rankings here) Any TRL in Conference Game – Hands down the most competitive league in Oregon. Lake O, Canby, West Linn, Clackamas, Oregon City, and Lakeridge are all legit playoff teams. Each week it will be the team that’s most prepared and least hurt that comes out on top. Lake O hasn’t lost a TRL game since before a lot of these kids started elementary…
The most consistent Sr. WR in the Pacific NW coming back this season could be Zack Davis (5-11 170) of Central Catholic. He has had as good an off season as almost any athlete state wide. Zack had what you could call a trifecta of successful events, starting with his performance in Las Vegas as part of our NEI-South All Star team. He followed that…
Over the past half decade Olympia has been one of the better teams in the State of Washington going (36-7) from 2008-2011, before last year’s (4-7) season. The Bears have two of the state’s better skill kids returning in Mitch Fettig and Cooper Murphy, with Fettig being ranked one of the state’s top DB’s. Mitch was part of our NEI All Star team that traveled…
Click For Manu Rasmussen Highlights As we move into 2013 one of the top players in the region, about to go off, is Tigard’s Manu Rasmussen (ATH/CB 6-0 175 Sr.). If there was one athlete that I would feel comfortable saying would go for 2000 yards and 30+ TD’s this season, it would be him. Rasmussen was a 2nd team all league DB in 2012,…
Canby has consistently been one of the better football schools in the state, and the Cougars realize that this years season has the potential of being special. Three backs return that averaged over 7 yards per carry, and they will run behind one of the largest lines in the Northwest, averaging 6-3 280 across the board. Add in one of the state’s top player’s in…
A kid you will hear a lot about in the coming years is Sehome sophomore-to-be Taylor Rapp (6-0 195 RB/S). He played varsity ball as freshman and did well, going for 425 rushing and receiving yards and 2 touchdowns. Rapp MVP’d the Barton Football Academy Bellingham Camp/Combine, and was also named an Offensive Underclassmen MVP at the region’s premier Showcase event. His physical attributes and overall testing…
As we move into the 2013 season, one of the top ranked defensive players in the state will be Southridge LB/SS Logan Sackley (6-1 195). One of the first players that the Skyhawk kids talk about is Sackley. He started as a junior, and was one of the Metro League’s leading tacklers. Logan legitimately had a 1st Team All-League season, but didn’t receive any all…
** In the next Month we will be doing conference previews with individual players and positions highlighted… These are early predictions that could change as the season draws near. Included is each teams rank within their conference and on a state wide level from (1-42) ** Below you will see the overall state Top 10 along with each conference’s power ranking. Here is the mathematical breakdown of the Power…
A player we have gotten to see at multiple workouts over the last month, David Ungerer III (5-7 160 Sr. Slot/ATH) out of Pullman HS, recently just landed his first offer from the Idaho Vandals. The talented Slot/WR attended a University of Idaho team camp, and went off. His performance there combined with last season’s production was good enough for the Vandals to make their…