Alabama Recruiting Update: Shaun Dion Hamilton
By Dave Friedman
There is a difference between being a really smart person and being an intelligent football player. Former Buffalo Bills starting quarterback and current St. Louis Rams backup Ryan Fitzpatrick has an economics degree from Harvard. During the only season that he started 16 games, he led the NFL throwing 23 interceptions. For Tide commitment Shaun Dion Hamilton, his smarts off the field are also obvious between the lines. The linebacker from Carver High School in Montgomery is able to use his brain to improve his play.
Shaun Dion Hamilton recently scored 22 on the ACT after scoring 17 or 18 as an eighth grader according to Gresham. He has a 3.80 GPA, and the mindset to succeed.
“We gave him the nickname 24/7,” said Gresham. “He leaves nothing to chance in terms of his prep. We can monitor how much video our players watch. He’s looking at two or three hours every day, even in the off-season. If you’re a bad coach, he’ll know it, and have an idea how to exploit it.”
As for his work on the field, Hamilton makes all the defensive calls and checks. Gresham has always been able to count on him to make big plays, but this year he asked him to be more physical.
“He’s responded positively,” said Gresham. “Sometimes you are only as strong as the weakest link within yourself. We challenged that part of his game. He has punished a lot of people this year. He’s explosive with a real knack for the ball.”
Shaun Dion Hamilton committed to Alabama in April and remains “almost 100-percent sure he wants to go there,” according to Gresham. However, the coach feels like players have earned the right through hard work and dedication to visit a few schools and urges them to at very least take the opportunity to visit a school or two outside of the area. Gresham said that Hamilton is going to tour a couple other campuses “to just make sure that he made the right decision.”
Thanks to his dedication, and ability to understand schemes quickly, Gresham thinks that Hamilton will succeed immediately at the next level.
“He’ll go right in and be an impact player,” said Gresham. “Whatever he is asked to do, he’ll learn real fast. Even if it is just special teams as a freshman, he’ll make a difference. I would think he’ll start for at least three years. He has a chance to play in the NFL.”
” Shaun Dion Hamilton signed with Alabama in April ”
Well since it is impossible to sign with a college that early , he must have meant something else? Maybe Hamilton signed with Phillips or Davis? Better cash that check before all hell breaks out!
You have no life, SECtroll – why don’t you go find some board that wants to read your crap? Your claims and fantasies are nowhere as interesting as LMAO’s or HateSmurfCoach, and you are a hate-filled loser. Go away – you are neither interesting or provocative, certainly not imaginative. You are a bore – the worst thing to be on a comment board about the nation’s most exciting and interesting team. Again – go away.
yeah, was supposed to say committed. What is bad, I changed it twice and still loaded the wrong version. I’ll update it now. Thx for the catch.
” the nation’s most exciting and interesting team. ”
In a few weeks when the NCAA gets done with the Ok. State mess and then turns to bama…….I will agree with that statement.
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