Huskies Offer Scholarship to California JC Running Back

Whereas Emeka Megwa checked out of the College of Washington soccer program this weekend, the Huskies provided scholarship to Mike Franklin, one other energy again from the California junior-college ranks.

An Alabama native, the 6-foot-2, 225-pound Franklin rushed for 898 yards and eight touchdowns in eight video games, averaging 6.6 yards per carry, for a 10-1 Contra Costa School workforce in San Pablo. 

He additionally caught a dozen passes for one more 133 yards, displaying the flexibility that Husky coach Kalen DeBoer and his workers require in a spotlight again. He has three seasons of eligibility remaining. 

“I am very excited concerning the supply as a result of I have been working actually exhausting this offseason and the whole lot is paying off,” Franklin stated in a direct message. “Speaking to educate [Ryan] Grubb and coach [Lee] Marks on the San Jose camp, it felt like household.”

Franklin, named first-team JC all-state and all-conference, was a part of a high-powered Toros backfield that included quarterback Jake Jensen, who threw for 1,970 yards and 22 scores and is dedicated to USC. Jensen initially started his profession at BYU.

The massive Contra Costa again additionally holds a scholarship supply from San Jose State, which was prolonged to him in early Might. He earlier was provided by Division II Lane School in Jackson, Tennessee.

Franklin offered speeding outings of 133, 112, 160 and 190 yards for Contra Costa, which sits north of Berkeley. He displayed a pleasant slicing potential, however did not shy from making an attempt to run over opposing tacklers. 

As his social-media posts demonstrated, he would not quick himself with weight-room exercises. He posted about finishing a 545-pound squat, which is spectacular for any again.

Contra Costa did not play a 2020 soccer season due to the pandemic. He ended up there after a pal prompt he name the coach. 

“Sure the pandemic was exhausting and it wiped my season out as a result of I used to be looking for a faculty and could not,” Franklin stated. “So I could not play anyplace in 2020. I obtained to CCC in 2021.”

Franklin performed for a pair of Alabama excessive faculties situated east of Cellular on the sting of Cellular Bay. He began two years for Daphne Excessive earlier than spending his senior season at Spanish Fort in 2018. 

He handled accidents that pressured him to overlook a while for Spanish Fort, which completed 11-2 and was ranked as excessive as No. 2 at Alabama’s 6A stage. 

Again then, Franklin acquired a scholarship supply from Memphis as a Daphne sophomore and had recruiting contacts with native faculties Samford and South Alabama.

Curiously, the Husky goal has been retweeting posts for a few years by Bookie Radley-Hiles, the previous UW nickelback now an NFL free agent signed by the Cincinnati Bengals.

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