We’re going back in the archives for you, back into the 1990s. Rickey Dudley is a former Ohio State tight end and basketball player. He played for John Cooper on the gridiron and Randy Ayers on the hardwood. He ended up being a first-round NFL draft pick, but you may not know his background very well.
He was quite the legend during his high school days in Henderson, Texas.
And back in a time when there wasn’t a ton of recruiting videos to consume and massive recruiting websites to sift through, the legend of some high school players never made it to the light of day until their college careers started.
Enter Rickey Dudley. ESPN asked some of its writers to single out the best high school prospects they ever covered, and Dave Wilson highlighted his time covering Dudley. Here’s what he said about the eventual Raider, Brown, and Buccaneer.
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