JACKSON WADE 4.39 40 YD

Yes. I liked the goal of being the fastest team in the country and having guys who wanted to prove it to each other.

 

Maybe we should call him a preferred ‘run on’

 

Jody, thanks for the post and congrats on Jackson’s PWO offer.

 

The story was… Noel Devine was the top RB in the state and country and extremely fast. He was from Ft Myers, mentored by (and I think lived w) Deion, ended up at West Virginia. He drove up to Lakeland and started asking people at Walmart where Chris Rainey was bc he wanted to race him. Rainey was awakened, went to Walmart and raced him in the parking lot in his socks, and won.
He probably raced demps and Percy Harvey too at some point.

 

The first part of your post is correct. He didn’t live with Deion in FL though. Pretty sure he lived with his grandparents or something like that when he was at North Ft Myers HS. Then he went to live with Deion in TX for his Senior year if I recall correctly. As for the racing Rainey I have no knowledge but I’ll take your word for it. He was super fast but his came at top end, he had that extra gear. He was super slippery in HS though, you’d see him swarmed by 8 people and still come out of it somehow. If I recall he wanted to be a Gator but grades kept him out. Would have been cool

 

Is he going to be like our Brandon James? I miss those special teams

 

Looks like Travis McGriff out there.

 

Dad played at Furman. Maybe he and Napes met there.

 

I'd happily take that

 

I wonder if he and Nape played together at Furman? Both were there in the late 90's... Maybe that is the connection?

 

Just saw this... my thoughts exactly.

 

Only lived with Deion for very short time in Texas. Left almost immediately and went back to Fort Myers. That whole saga was weird.

 

Yeah, Didn’t he steal Deion’s car to drive to the airport to come back to FL or something like that?

 

Was this like a ‘never land ranch’ situation

 

Yes, it was almost like he escaped. Whole thing was weird.

 

We should change the thread title to Deion and the WV kid.

this went wayyy off track.

 

What were you saying?