Carrying on the Tradition at Skyline; DE/TE Cameron Saffle Next In Line: By Scott Enyeart

May 23, 2013

  The football team at Sammamish (Wash.) Skyline High School rarely seems to rebuild, but rather reload. Year after year new standouts emerge that have come up through the Skyline Youth Football program learning “The Spartan Way”. Sometimes they’re players who are already household names locally – like a Max Browne, and other times they’re players who come in without a lot of fanfare and go on to become…

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Barton Camp/ Combine Breakdown; Vancouver, WA: By Jordan Johnson

May 23, 2013

      OVERALL CAMP MVP – Davasyia Hagger 6-4 1/2 200 Sr. WR Beaverton Offensive MVP – Manu Rasmussen 6-0 175 Jr. RB Tigard Defensive MVP – Cameron Schmitz 6-2 195 Jr. S West Linn POSITIONAL MVP’S QB – Reilly Hennessey – Jr. Camas WA ; Aidan Wilder – Jr. Central Catholic OR RB – Nathan Beasley – Jr. Camas WA WR – Quentin Bates – Jr. Reynolds…

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Camas OL Drew Clarkson picks up another Pac12 offer: By Scott Eklund

May 23, 2013

  Camas (Wa.) OL Drew Clarkson has seen an explosion of sorts over the past couple of weeks as offers have begun to roll in for him. On Wednesday, the versatile line prospect received his sixth offer when Washington head coach Steve Sarkisian extended a full ride. “It all happened really fast,” Clarkson told Northwest Elite Index. “I hadn’t really even heard from Washington, but then coach (Dan)…

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Toki gets two new Pac 12 offers: By Scott Eklund

May 21, 2013

  Juanita (Kirkland, Wa.) DT Thomas Toki, a rising 2015 recruit, already had two Pac 12 offers and on Tuesday he received full rides from two more. Toki, a 5’11.5″, 285-pound defensive tackle for the Rebels, already had full rides from Washington State and UCLA and on Tuesday, head coach Shaun Tarantola informed NEI that his junior-to-be also received offers from Arizona State and Oregon State. After a…

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Elite Jesuit LB Joey Alfieri earns invite to NIKE Opening and wins NFTC MVP: By Jordan Johnson

May 21, 2013

Joey Alfieri Salem Combine Video     The accolades seem to just keep adding up for one of the nation’s top LB’s in Joey Alfieri of Jesuit. The Oregon standout went down to the Bay this weekend and won the NFTC MVP LB Award, with a host of the region’s top athletes in attendance. This was followed up by an invitation to the prestigious “NIKE Opening” , representing the state of Oregon…

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Two-Way Standout Brian Nault Emerging at Shelton HS: By Scott Enyeart

May 21, 2013

  Shelton (Wash.) High School has a strong recent history of producing high-caliber players under head coach Matt Hinkle, and the next player in that line of success appears to LB/OL Brian Nault. The 6-foot-2, 215-pound Nault earned offensive line honorable mention All-League honors as a freshman, and 2nd team All-League at linebacker as a sophomore. Now entering his junior season, Nault is set to establish as one…

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Shadle Park’s Brett Rypien Lands 2nd FBS Offer: By Scott Enyeart

May 20, 2013

  The state of Washington’s No. 1 ranked QB for the class of 2015, Spokane (Wash.) Shadle Park’s Brett Rypien, picked up his second FBS offer on Monday night from the University of Idaho. Rypien also currently holds an offer from Washington State. In 2012 Rypien helped lead Shadle Park to the state playoffs while completing 63% of his passes for 3,574 yards, throwing 29 TD’s against…

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Under recruited senior WR the Real Deal; Beaverton’s Davasyia Hagger: By Jordan Johnson

May 20, 2013

  Recruiting’s a crazy thing as we sit here in late May with one of the region’s best senior’s looking for a place to play. Davaysia Hagger (6-4.5 200) out of Beaverton was primarily a basketball kid for most of his high school career, but what we saw at our Barton Camp/Combine Sunday completely changed things. Hagger met up for a workout with Taylor Barton and the NW’s top QBs on…

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