Nyckoles Harbor is not the veryfirst high school football hire to procedure in at 6 feet 6 and 225 pounds. Nor is he the veryfirst hire to run the 100-meter dash in 10.22 seconds.
But he may extremely well be the veryfirst to do both.
A luxury hire from Archbishop Carroll High School in Washington D.C., the 17-year-old Harbor has an extremely unusual mix of size and speed – damaging havoc as an edge rush on defense, a large receiver on offense and a sprinter on the school’s track group.
To get a muchbetter sense of simply how special Harbor is as a two-sport professionalathlete, USA TODAY Sports compared him with 4 other star professionalathletes – each of whom ran the 100- and 200-meter dash in high school, like Harbor, and played on the football group.
Three of those professionalathletes – Tyreek Hill, Christian McCaffrey and Randy Moss – went on to standout in the NFL. The 4th, specialist sprinter Erriyon Knighton, is an Olympian and world bronze medalist on the track.
Here is how the 5 professionalathletes compared on the track, as detailed by their high school individual bests in the 100 and200 Harbor, it oughtto be keptinmind, still has one more track season ahead of him in 2023.
Of course, it’s not simply Harbor’s speed that has Division I colleges shout