Detroit Cass Tech’s Deone Walker may possibly be a mild huge off the football subject, but on it he gets to be a 6-foot-7, 340-pound praying mantis.

“He’s a serious peaceful kid who does not actually communicate up a lot, but when he does, he signifies business,” said Marvin Dashing, in his initially period as the Experts head mentor. “As we strategy game day, he sort of turns it up and is a minor little bit much more active. But actually, he’s sort of shy, which is type of surprising supplied his dimension and stature, and how he performs. But then all over again, when it is video game day, and he is aware of his brothers need to have him, he’s likely to phase up.”

In Saturday’s dominating 49-22 period-opening victory more than Southfield A&T in the Xenith Prep Kickoff Common at Wayne State, Walker designed two defining back again-to-back defensive stops to demonstrate why he is a single of the nation’s most coveted lineman recruits.

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With Cass Tech by now up in the 1st quarter 14-, but Southfield going down to the Technicians’ 2-garden line for the likely rating, Walker turned into a infamous predator.

On the initial engage in, Southfield A&T working back Davier Burt achieved a brick wall as he was brought down for no get by Walker. And on the up coming play, Walker came up with a spotlight reel crushing deal with for a 3-lawn decline in opposition to Burt.