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With so much discussion about the whole draft process I am wondering who is the beat prospect each of you have seen live.

Try to eliminate NFL bias, meaning if you saw Brady at Michigan well he wasn’t an elite prospect then. Just pure college prospect.

Mine is Michael Vick, whole family minus myself went to VA Tech (UGA Alum) few family members said I had to watch this guy. Went to a game and this dude was lightning in a bottle. We all know he was fast in the NFL but good lord watching 18-19 year old guys try and run him down was demoralizing. And his arm was amazing he could throw it through a wall. There was no contain he could embarrass you with a sliver of space man was he fun to watch.

So what was yours?
 
Randy Moss played with Pennington at WVU my junior year for Marshall.
 
Reggie Bush. Damn. 2005 against Fresno State, I was at the game on my official visit and I’ll never forget how ridiculous he was on the field.
 
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Was that the year moss hurdled the linebacker? He must have been a wonder to watch being a man amongst boys.
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Yes it was :)
I also had the opportunity to play pick up basketball with him.
 
Ryan Matthews, Derek Carr, Cody Kessler, and Ex-Phin Matt Darr were all High School players who I saw play when I was Refereeing back in Bakersfield CA.

There were quite a few others, but honestly, the one who stood out the most was Matt Darr. As a schoolboy, he already had an NFL leg and we were all just slack-jawed by his punts. You just dont see that at the HS level.

Ryan Matthews was also astonishing but in a different way. He was so much better than anyone else on the field that his coach made him the QB. Everyone knew he couldn't pass and wouldn't hand the ball off, but it didn't matter. I worked one of his games where I think he went over 300 yards. It was just unstoppable.
 
Recent: Clowney and Gurley, absolutely men among boys.
 
saw Bush and Adrian Peterson in the orange bowl. Bush was electric but I still remember Peterson. Looked massive compared to most players
 
Marshall Faulk at CSU on a Thursday night ESPN game in the snow. Think I still have the frost bite scars. We (CSU) had a horrible D but somehow shut him down and he did not play the second half due to injury. Pretty sure I made up for it with schnapps and a sorority girl...
 
Tough call. I've seen a heck of a lot of guys who were drafted first overall, from Lee Roy Selmon to Billy Sims to George Rogers to John Elway to Vinny Testaverde to Russell Maryland. Beyond that I've seen tons of Canes and USC greats like Ted Hendricks and Ottis Anderson and Ronnie Lott and Marcus Allen, etc.

But I've mentioned this previously and I'll go back to it. I'm good at remembering points in time and what the pecking order was, unclouded by anything that happened later. When I was at USC in the early '80s there were 4 athletes competing locally who were considered absolute bizarre super freaks. They were Renaldo Nehemiah, Kenny Easley, Karch Kiraly and Cheryl Miller.

All are considered legends in their respective sports but only Kiraly had a full career. Cheryl Miller is easily the greatest women's basketball player of all time but had the devastating knee injury while still in college. Nehemiah missed his prime 1980 Olympics due to boycott and then had to scramble to figure out what to do. Easley was phenomenal and always considered above Lott in college. He was so outrageous they had a weekly segment on a local Los Angeles affiliate devoted to highlights of a college safety. This was several minutes every week, a segment hosted by Stu Nahan of Fast Times at Ridgemont High fame.

I'm not going to forget how extraordinary that was. USC was an arrogant university and athletic department and football program. We knew Ronnie Lott as a phenom. Yet I wasn't hearing anyone place him at or above Kenny Easley level. When I asked Lott himself about it in Heritage Hall for a Daily Trojan column, he looked at me as if I were nuts.

I'm going with Kenny Easley, the greatest college safety of all time and finally rightfully enshrined in the NFL Hall of Fame.
 
Herschel Effing Walker!

The beast that defined the standard of BEAST!
 
Charles Woodson the year he won the Heisman vs Penn State at home. Rainy, lousy November day and I couldn't believe I was seeing him live.
 
I saw Peyton Manning, Orlando Pace, Eddie George, Terry Glenn, Shawn Springs, and Mike Vrabel all in the same game. Jan 1st 1996 @ Citrus Bowl. It rained all day and the field was in terrible condition. I was in high school at the time playing RG and DE for the varsity team and had never been to a college bowl game. It was such a great experience even in the rain. Had no idea I was watching a bunch of all-pro HOF type players.

I also saw Dante Culpepper play at UCF quite a few times :lol: That's when we switched from Division I-AA to Division I-A football. Exciting times!
 
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