Click for Brady Widner Highlights When you watch as much film as we do at NEI, every now and then you come across players that can just flat out play. That was the case one year ago when I came across Zillah WR/DB Brady Widner (5’11” 175). While this season may not have ended the way Zillah would have liked (9-1), Widner was well recognized for his…
Click for Eric Ledesma Highlights On the Peninsula, prospects can go a bit overlooked, but Central Kitsap (Silverdale, Wa.) LB Eric Ledesma, a 2015 prospect, could help change that pattern after he put up some big numbers this past fall. “I had a good year personally and that helped me team have a good year too,” Ledesma told Northwest Elite Index. “I’ve always been coached to be…
For years, the Cascade (Everett, Wa.) Bruins had been an afterthought in the WESCO 4A. However, this past season, with a talented senior class, they made the playoffs and that is something that, senior OL Randin Crecelius takes a lot of pride in. “(Going to the playoffs) was a huge accomplishment for us especially coming from the 0-20 seasons (two seasons with no wins) and being 5-5…
Schell-Buchanan Highlights One of the top senior’s in Oregon over the course of the 2013 season was senior James Schell-Buchanan (6-0 190) of Roosevelt. He was selected a 1st team all league kid on both sides of the ball, and earned 1st team all state WR honors and 2nd team all state DB accolades. He was also named the team MVP. James was a three year…
Cameron Scarlett is one of the better Junior running back’s in the country and Thursday he received his first D1 offer from Oregon State. The kid from Central Catholic is fresh off a state title and a 1st team all state season, accounting for 33 TD’s and 2, 874 all purpose yards. Cam has D1 genes as his brother Brennan was a player of the year in…
Click for Raemo Trevino Highlights The State of Washington has been producing some very good lineman the last few years. A player to keep an eye on is C/DT Raemo Trevino (6’0″ 260) of Bishop Blanchet. While he may not have they eye popping height that most people look for, he has a nastiness that you really can’t teach. This season Trevino was voted first team All-Metro…
Just a couple of weeks ago, we reported that rising 2015 prospect, Bellevue (Wa.) Mustafa Branch had received his first offer. Well, the talented player receiver received his second offer, this one coming from a Pac 12 school. “I got a call from the Oregon State coaches and they said they were offering me,” Branch told Northwest Elite Index. “I had just started talking to them a…
Over the next two seasons you can bank on the Oregon City Pioneers being one of the top teams in the state. The combination of a talented senior class and some elite underclassmen helped OC win the Three Rivers League title, going (9-2) on the year. The TRL was top to bottom the toughest conference in the state and the Pio’s set the tone for the next…
News came in Wednesday that W.F. West (Chehalis, Wash.) QB Tanner Gueller had received his first offer when the Idaho State Bengals made a play at the 6-foot-3, 225-pound senior. Gueller was recently named second team All-State by the Associated Press after a huge season in which he completed 172-of-272 passes for 2,435 yards and 36 TD’s. What might surprise most is that he also rushed for 768…
For the last three years Nick Underwood has been one of the top LB’s in Oregon. On Tuesday he made his intentions known committing to the U.S. Air Force Academy over a host of other D1 schools. Underwood had been offered by the likes of UNLV and Portland St, but found Air Force to be a good fit saying, “Selecting my future school was both exciting and…