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Dude works when nobody's watching and has goals he will fight to get. Coach Merrill and the EOSC staff are getting a warrior with @EthanDowning111.
Let's keep these 27s coming off the board! @ntlbaseball @Bells_Baseball
110% Commited
Beyond blessed to announce my commitment to Eastern Oklahoma State College. I want to thank all my family and coaches for giving me this opportunity.
@JoshMerrill_7| @EOSC_Baseball
Dude is still putting on good weight that'll play well with his in-game IQ. There's more than a couple programs out there that will get better by getting @AndrewR00152944 (3B/1B) involved! Get on him!! @jucoroute @BUncommitted @TopPreps @ntlbaseball
Keep getting stronger brotha! Will be a great addition at the next level. On-base ability and wheels for top of the order and enough pop to drive runs in from the middle of the order, more than capable from all 3 OF spots. Get on this dude! @DirectRecruits @TopPreps @ntlbaseball
Had some great fall ball scrimmages with @RHSBaseball25. Got some quality AB’s against some good competition. Missed some video of some good hits, but got what I could.
@CoachVice5 @BViars3 @jucoroute @Juco_Spotlight @BUncommitted
PA:23
AVG: .556
OBP: .652
OPS: 1.597
Dude knows the game and impacts games with his bat in a big way. Can't wait for a program to jump on @QuinnMcCasland and get him on campus! @BUncommitted @jucoroute @TopPreps @ntlbaseball
Can't wait to see Graham cover ground and terrorize the basepaths in Edmond! Great get and the first of a wave of 2027s ready to come off the board! @ntlbaseball @vabaseball1
I am beyond blessed to announce my commitment to Oklahoma Christian University. AGTG. #TalonsUp
@PrestonKing19 @CoachVice5 @baseball_oc
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Thank you @DrewLancaster9 and @ackangaroosbsb for the opportunity to attend the prospect camp. I really enjoyed the experience and appreciate the time from the coaching staff.
A couple swings from yesterday ⬇️
Weight room and cages are paying off heading into sophomore year at @ColbyTrojanBSB for @MatthewKesting! Ready to see a 4 year scoop this COF/1B kid!! @JucoPipeline @jucoroute @JUCOuncommitted 💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼
SO | OF | Matthew Kesting
(@MatthewKesting @ColbyTrojanBSB)
Kesting gets all of this one to lead-off the game for a solo shot!
#KCJUCO | @PrepBaseballKS | @PrepBaseball_TX | @PB_JUCO
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ESPN once ranked Myron Rolle the best high school football player in America.
He never played a single down in an NFL regular season game.
Today he operates on children's brains.
Rolle grew up in Galloway Township, New Jersey. His parents are from the Bahamas. He went to the Hun School of Princeton and by 2006 the recruiting services had him at the top of the board, a five star safety every program in the country wanted.
He picked Florida State.
Then he finished his bachelor's degree in exercise science in two and a half years with a 3.75 GPA, and made third team All-American in 2008.
And then he won a Rhodes Scholarship.
The interview was in Birmingham, Alabama, on a Saturday, the same day Florida State was playing at Maryland. The NCAA let him charter a plane. He sat for the interview, found out he had won, got on the plane, landed in College Park and played in the game.
Here is where it turns.
He was projected as a first or second round NFL pick. Instead he skipped the entire 2009 season and went to Oxford for a year to earn a master's degree in medical anthropology.
When he came back, the league had moved on.
The Tennessee Titans took him in the sixth round, 207th overall, in 2010. Two hundred and six players went ahead of a kid who had been the number one recruit in the country.
He never appeared in a regular season game for Tennessee. He spent a stretch with the Pittsburgh Steelers and got released.
That was it. That was the whole NFL career.
In 2013 he walked away from football entirely and enrolled at the Florida State College of Medicine. He was 26 and starting over in a field where everybody else had been pointed at it since undergrad.
He graduated in 2017. Then he matched into neurosurgery at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, which is roughly the hardest thing in American medicine to get into. Then a pediatric fellowship at Johns Hopkins.
In the spring of 2020 he was a resident working hospital floors during COVID.
Today he is a pediatric neurosurgeon at Nemours Children's Hospital in Orlando. He runs the Myron L. Rolle Foundation, which does health and education work for children and families who need it.
Be honest about the football part. Nobody can prove Oxford cost him. Scouts had real questions about whether he would commit to the sport, and plenty of number one recruits never make it for reasons that have nothing to do with a scholarship.
But here is what we know for sure.
He was told he was throwing away a career. He went anyway.
And the thing everybody was afraid he would choose instead of football is the reason some kid in Orlando is going to wake up tomorrow.
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A young 27, CIF... 6' 2" and filling out. Some dawg in him, goona be fun at the next level!! @DirectRecruits @jucoroute @TopPreps
Always love supporting our @ntlbaseball guys playing at the next level - and great benefit of @FiveTool putting on an awesome event in Melissa. @NavarroBasebal1 has some scrapper on that squad!
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Matt Blake, the Yankees pitching coach, told my audience that the best pitchers are the best catch-play guys. , He named Kluber, Tanaka, Cole. Daily catch, done with intent, is where command lives. It is free, and almost nobody treats it as training.
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1/ In April 2023, Dave Lawn — then the associate head coach at Arizona — walked me through how their lineup was actually assembled, position by position. Every family stressed about timelines should read this.
What's your excuse? #hardworkworks
Dohnte Meyers went undrafted in 2023 out of Delta State, a Division II school in Mississippi.
He got a tryout at Atlanta Falcons rookie minicamp. It didn't take.
So he started driving for DoorDash.
Train during the day. Deliver food at night. Sometimes until 2 or 3 in the morning. Then get up and do it again, waiting for a football phone call that wasn't coming.
Eventually he heard about an open tryout in Atlanta for the Saskatchewan Roughriders of the CFL.
It cost $100 to participate. Out of pocket. His own money, from delivering food, for a chance to stand on a field with a few hundred other guys hoping somebody was watching.
He paid it.
"I balled out," Meyers said later.
Saskatchewan signed him to a futures contract in October 2023.
Then everything went wrong again. A broken hand delayed his 2024 debut. A separated shoulder ended his season early. Two years into professional football and he'd barely played.
"That was the only thing that could really provide some stability," Meyers said about leaning on his faith through that stretch.
Then 2025 happened.
65 catches. 1,056 yards. 8 touchdowns. CFL West Division All-Star. And a Grey Cup, Canada's championship, with Saskatchewan.
A Bengals scouting executive whose job is watching other pro leagues flagged him. Cincinnati brought him in for a January workout and signed him to a reserve/future contract.
That's usually where these stories end. A camp body in a receiver room that already has Ja'Marr Chase and Tee Higgins.
Here's the part that changed it.
The week before training camp, Joe Burrow texted him asking if he was in town for a throwing session.
Meyers was in Atlanta. The workout was the next morning at 11.
He said yes anyway, got in the car with his brother riding shotgun, and drove seven hours through the night. About 460 miles. He walked into that session on no sleep.
Burrow only found out about the drive afterward, face to face.
"I texted him, 'Hey, are you in town?' He's like, 'I can be.' I was like, 'Can you be here tomorrow at 11?' He's like, 'Yeah,'" Burrow said. "Come to find out he drove from Atlanta that night to be there to throw the next day. That's the kind of guy that he is."
Meyers explained it simply.
"Whether I've got to fly, whether I've got to drive, if the quarterback says he wants to throw, I'm ready to work. I'm not gonna let him outwork me. If he's ready to throw, I'm ready to catch."
Through three preseason games, he caught 11 passes for 121 yards, added 22 rushing yards, and 99 return yards. He took first-team reps with Burrow. The two of them stayed 40 minutes after one practice working on routes.
Today, Cincinnati cut down to 53 players.
Wide receivers coach Troy Walters called him on FaceTime to tell him.
"The sweet part about it is I get to tell a guy who worked out for us last December, came from the CFL and then we signed in February, spent hours in the coaches' office studying the playbook, made plays in the preseason. I just wanted to personally tell you congratulations for making the 53-man roster."
Meyers is 26 years old, 5-foot-11, 186 pounds. Three years ago he was delivering food and scraping together a hundred dollars for a tryout in another country.
On September 13th, he'll be on an NFL field catching passes from Joe Burrow.
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Been working hard this offseason behind the plate and swinging it a ton as well.
Kid got hot as summer wound down. Had @AndrewR00152944 playing SS, 1B and 3B this summer very well, threw good innings and had quality LD swings to the gaps. Will be a great get by a program that lets his body continues to add good weight. @ntlbaseball @TopPreps @jucoroute
Congrats @JustinEclavea, nobody better! 💪🏽💪🏽
📰: @MSC_Baseball Eclavea Promoted to Associate Head Baseball Coach
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Still adding weight back after a heavy workload behind the dish this summer, @blakewiley2027 is keeping on his path to monster status. Can't wait to see which school is fortunate enough to get him at the next level! 💪🏽 @ntlbaseball @RHSBaseball25 @BUncommitted
Blake Wiley (@BlakeWiley2027) with the 90 MPH EV at the @FiveToolTexas DFW Uncommitted Showcase.
Prosper Richland (TX) 2027 #uncommitted
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