Steve Wiltfong
17 hours ago
The football rifled out of the jugs machine and came spiraling at young Stefon Diggs.
Just a freshman at the time, Diggs stuck his big paw up in the air, halting the pigskin in its tracks, impressively catching it at the point of the ball.
"I've never seen anybody do that before," Olney (Md.) Good Counsel coach Bob Milloy said. The Hall of Famer is the state's all-time leader in wins. "That's not easy to do."
An assistant coach from Maryland was also on hand for Diggs' impressive feat, and the Terrapins quickly became the first program to offer the future blue-chipper a scholarship.
"I went home and shed a tear or two," Diggs said. "I told my mom and she said that's big."
Getting a football scholarship was one of the many reasons why Diggs and his mother chose Good Counsel over the public schools for high school. The full-rides quickly piled up for Diggs, who likely projects as a receiver on the next level. He says Pittsburgh was next to offer, and during that summer, Miami and Virginia Tech joined the party. Fast forward to now, and the nation's top-ranked athlete recruit and No. 10 prospect overall according to 247Sports, could sign with nearly any school in America that he wants.
For the 6-foot-1, 190-pound Diggs, adjusting to major high school football at one of the nation's top programs was the easy part. However, coming from public school to a high-end private school where 99 percent of the school's students go onto college was a challenge.
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