Off-Season Headliners From A Loaded 2025 Class
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These are all players rising their stock in the offseason with available videos, most posting clips of themselves on Twitter. Although these simple clips should be taken with a grain of salt, they give us current updates and a simple…
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Continue ReadingThese are all players rising their stock in the offseason with available videos, most posting clips of themselves on Twitter. Although these simple clips should be taken with a grain of salt, they give us current updates and a simple look to observe prospects in a tiny sample size at face value. Several of these prospects are also affiliated with local off-season showcase teams.
Norris recently landed his first D1 offer from the Pittsburgh Panthers as just a sophomore but is an easy candidate for tons of colleges to offer moving forward. He’s recently been invited to several offseason showcase games and camps for showing tons of promise as a lengthy speedster of a WR who developed great chemistry with his QB and ran all of his routes well on tape. He’s good changing directions and speeds, and Graham Kapowskin benefitted greatly from his athleticism and feel for the game to use it at the right times going deep or making a sideline catch by coming back. Norris’ name is gaining traction as he is discovered by colleges, media and scouts at once.
Paige is a hard-nosed FS and RB for Spanaway Lake who positions himself well and has the underrated skill of great awareness. It’s hard to tell if he has big-time speed based on his highlights, because while some of his high school and offseason teammates definitely do, he makes plays inside the box and between the hashes as a skill player. There have been several shorter safeties with hard-noses and enough heart to shut down other beasts in the run game for four quarters. Paige is also one of several Team FSP prospects competing in a WA v Hawaii off-season showcase game on April 23. He’ll be another one of the Sentinels’ big players to watch going forward.
Notoa can be an amazing power back if he utilizes his physical potential, as he’s already been described by his coaches as a true downhill runner. He does this well enough to simply be considered based on his weight room statistics and offseason padded game footage. He works with FSP and also lists himself as an ATH, which would be scary for a defense to deal with as a complete package of size and speed. He’s not as fast as some smaller athletes but has some evasiveness as a natural runner who welcomes contact but hits gaps with power and acceleration. He should be a factor for Kamiak, especially with their new coaching hire getting 2 more years of the physical runner to build around.
Rice-Claiborne has great vision and recognition on the perimeter, and the heart to capitalize on it often. He plays disciplined with good footwork and can excel in several different zone coverages, with strides and eager hands playing loose and excited. Not only does he play loose at 180, but he also plays big and hits hard, also appearing coordinated for a lengthy 6’1″ skill player. He’s a willing low tackler but needs to continue to utilize his lower body to drive people into the ground. While he moves well and hits hard, he doesn’t press or use his hands nearly enough to impede receivers; he needs to hand fight whenever possible, and will become a more physical and much more disruptive and sticky corner as he instinctually turns and runs tighter with his hands remaining on them. If he does this, he could develop his full potential. He’s been showing good reps with FSP as well this offseason.
Devin Caminong
Devin Caminong
Caminong is as hot of a name as there is in Seattle at the moment, with Devin’s brother E.J. an early UW commit at QB and staking his claim for the best ’24 signal caller in the State. We’ve seen Devin active on twitter this offseason, with videos from his off-season showcase team’s events where he’s emerged despite being a young player on a loaded roster and finding it hard to produce game tape. While there’s little film of him in pads yet, we’ve seen a gifted athlete who’s smooth in and out of his breaks in the scrimmage clips available. Caminong should get his Friday Night chance soon and is ready to become a bigger factor on for Garfield’s offense with E.J. blossoming.