He was the equivalent out of high school of what Trent Richardson or Joe McKnight were recently. Mississippi had the nation's #1 RB recruit a couple of times back then in Walker and a few years before, Brian Darden from Warren Central that ended up wasting away at UTenn and then Jackson State.davidees wrote:I listened to Madkin and Moulds interviewing him a few weeks back and according to them, he was the #1 HB recruit in the country. I remember the excitement when State landed him, but I guess I didn't realize just how highly touted he was
Both State and Ole Miss had some stud running backs in the 1990s. Deuce and Jon Avery were both first rounders if memory serves. As was James "J.J." Johnson for State. State also had Michael Davis and Kevin Bowie, who were both bad news.
