4 DAYS TO KICKOFF: Daniel Sams
by BracketCat on Aug 30, 2011 12:00 PM CDT
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#4 Daniel Sams |
Position: Multiple Positions Previous College: None Projection: Redshirt Status: On Scholarship |
Daniel Sams (b. Oct. 1, 1992), a.k.a. The Promised One, is the only quarterback to whom K-State offered a scholarship in the 2010 class. Moreover, the coaches promised him it would remain that way. The question is why?
The answer is: Sams is a freak athlete in the mold of Ell Roberson. In him, Bill Snyder sees the genesis of the next generation of dual-threat quarterbacks in Manhattan. This guy played six frackin' positions in high school.
No offense to any of the perfectly capable quarterbacks who might start this season, but Sams (along with next year's incoming freshman, Tavarius Bender) is the future.
In the meantime, I expect Sams to redshirt, sit and learn. Snyder's playbook is notoriously complicated and no true freshman ever has played quarterback for him. For that matter, only one redshirt freshman, Allan Evridge, ever has.
If Sams does see the field this season, it most likely will be at wide receiver, where he was deadly effective as a high school senior while also taking snaps at quarterback. He caught 21 passes for 518 yards and nine touchdowns.
Playing wide receiver and then quarterback has worked pretty well for Collin Klein, after all. Can history repeat itself?
That said, Snyder probably would prefer to redshirt Sams if at all possible. We're pretty deep at wide receiver.
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I see BIG things from this kid in the future.
First of all, he is as EMAW as any recruit we’ve had in a long time. He and Gipson could be real fan favorites for the next few years with how much they’ve embraced KState.
Secondly, his highlight reel is just silly. This kid was getting recruited by big time schools to be an “athlete”. There’s no question he could help any team in some capacity. Snyder just has the belief he can do that at QB where others are more skeptical.
I think we RS him for sure. With Lockett and Sheldon being viable starting WRs according to reports, we don’t need Sams at that position, even though having his athleticism there obviously wouldn’t hurt. Also, I’m going to go glass half full here and assume Klein is actually pretty damn good. If so, then Sams won’t be starting next year. Would rather have him be set up to start three seasons and have potentially five straight years of quality QB play (with hopefully more to follow from Bender) than get only two years of Sams at QB because we don’t RS him now.
I totally agree
RS unless he’s needed now, but it will take a series of awful things for him to be needed as deep as this team looks (except on the lines, but it’s not like he’s going to play DE or LT).
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Agree completely
There were a few things I noticed on the highlight reel that caught even my untrained eye (and someone commented about this below the video).
He doesn’t tuck the ball when he is running. At the D1 level I would think the ball will get stripped easily.
It also appeared as if he has a rather slow wind up and release.
But yeah, I am excited to see what he can do for us next year and beyond.
by Jeremy Sharp on Aug 30, 2011 2:01 PM CDT up reply actions
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I agree with comments above that his passing is at best suspect, however, the coaches must believe his passing flaws are correctable. Hope we can redshirt him this year.
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