Isaiah Asuma
Isaiah Asuma
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Expert Analysis
Oliver West | Prep Redzone Scout
The latest installment of the Asuma boys out of Cherry in the NE part of the state up on the Iron Range, 2027 multi-sport Isaiah Asuma is another terrific multi-sporter following in the footsteps of his cousins Isaac – who hoops for Minnesota – and Noah, a 2026 Cherry senior who is committed to Minnesota to play baseball. Isaiah, like his cousins, could play three sports at the next level, and is fresh off a terrific junior basketball season that saw him tally 28 ppg, 43% from 3pt range, 6 rpg, and 3.5 apg in a Cherry basketball season that saw the Tigers‘ go 25-7 in 2025-26. Cherry lost in the state quarterfinal to Janesville-Waldorf-Pemberton and lost to Liberty Classical in the Class 1A consolation, but Isaiah already has reported a a UMD hoops offer, and also plays baseball for Cherry High School.
On the gridiron, the Asumas athleticism has helped engineer a bump from up 9man to 11man football, and 2027 Isaiah has stepped in as an electric wildcat QB and one of the best multi-sporters in the state. Possessing homerun speed and burst, Asuma owns a dazzling combination of footwork, contact balance, and overall elusiveness as a scrambler in the pocket as a QB as well as a ball carrier. The junior also throws a beautiful ball and has some natural arm talent and smooth mechanics from the QB spot, but his talent shines brightest as a ball carrier. Owning impressive vision – Asuma sees and smells the cutback with lethal efficiency, hard to touch him, much less tackle him, in the open field. Sees and sets up safeties and defensive backs in space and forces them to freeze their feet and commit their hips, and can stretch defenders and create space and holes thanks to his speed, vision, and burst. Asuma blows by defenders with so much pace and velocity that they seem to be reacting in slow motion and at least a step behind, creating arm tackles and off-angles for tacklers in the open field, and the burst is reminiscent of a drag car exploding out of the gates, flies to the third level of the field with frightening intention. Plus, Isaiah can easily take the edge and hurt defenses out on the sideline and in space and is tough through contact and will run behind his pads.
As with the other Asumas, you know they’re athletic, but you can’t put it into context football-wise thanks to the geographic isolation and lack of testing times, but the Cherry product is running with the Minnesota Comets AAU program and comes in at #13 in the PrepHoops 2027 Rankings, so you know there’s elite athleticism in his skillset. Very interested to see where this Asuma ends up.
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