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In all seriousness, this is a HUGE get IMO.
This is a kid when you watch the film you just see a player ... forget all the other BS about how great hips are, how fast they are, etc.
One thing that Charles and Donald have been stressing has been the importance for Washington to get back to recruiting football players and not so much being enamored by the stars or whether or not the player is some kind of track standout. Some of that might be important with some of the skill positions, but it's really not. Football at the highest level is highly technical, highly nuanced, and a lot about want to than it is about physical gifts. It's when you combine all the other stuff with physical gifts that you get the freak kind of players.
Getting a kid like this also speaks VOLUMES about the message that Petersen is sending and that the kids are buying the messaging. A kid like Bartlett have the kind of attributes that you find littered up and down the roster of high caliber teams.
100% agree with you on the bolded part. Since they have gotten here they have really done well in recruiting. But the most important is that the message they came in here with in recruiting is working wonderfully. They aren't going to have to drastically change their message, it is working and they nailed it right away.