Nobody who watches him has been wowed since his sophomore year. He’s a decent recruit.
I saw lots of red flags
Not good, right?
Well... before the game the entire Woodinville team was clustered together at about midfield. Smalls walks over by himself to his 40 yard line and pulls a Cam Newton and just stands there alone and gives Woodinville a hard stare for a full minute[/b]. None of the Woodinville players seemed to pay him any mind.
Then Woodinville took the opening drive right down the field and scored. And before you know it, it's 28-0 Woodinville. And I'm watching Smalls... He's physically imposing, looks like a man among boys. He's fast and strong... But he took plays off. He would try really hard one play, and then seemed to coast on the next play. He almost looked a little lazy to be blunt.
So I don't know... I kind of got the same feeling watching him that I did back when I saw Jacob Sirmon play QB for Bothell. Just kind of like, really physically imposing kid, lots of athletic gifts... But, meh.
It's just one game so it might not be fair to judge his entire persona on that. But from what I saw tonight I don't understand the justification for the 5 star rating.