OldFalcon

The information on Chad Henderson is a little bit off. He played his senior season at a shade under 6'3" and was well above the 245 at which he was listed...probably 265. He also never ran anything near a 4.4 forty. Some of the recruiting services listed him at 4.5, but the truth would have been about 4.8 or 4.9. I know that because my best ever time was in the 4.8s, and I was usually about half of a step faster than him. Also, he wasn't the top defensive prospect in the country, but he was a consensus top 3 linebacker. If he had worked his way into major college football, however, he would have ended up as a defensive end. He didn't have the pure speed to be a college linebacker, but his quickness was awesome and would have made him a great DE. As for the other Lincoln County guys, Carlos Hadley was a great high school linebacker at just under 200 lbs, and he was much, much faster than Chad. He ran about a 4.6 forty, which was also Kevin Henderson's speed. Carlos played college football and is a junior high coach now, I believe. David Grogan was the best of them all, however. He was about 6'3", 215 coming out of high school and ran a true 4.5, which is faster than 95% of the guys who report a 4.4 in high school. He, like Chad, was Mr. Football and had a scholarship to UT. Also like Chad, he didn't qualify and bummed around a junior college or two before ending up back in Fayetteville. Grogan's athleticism was such that he got a baseball scholarship to Columbia State after football didn't work out...despite the fact that he had not played baseball before. If he had stuck with football, he'd be playing outside linebacker on Sundays right now. Lincoln County had 4 Mr. Footballs (Grogan, Henderson, Antonio Manning, and Jay Thompson) in five years at one point, and only Thompson, the coach's son and the least talented of the four, qualified for college. It's a sad story for what really wasn't a bad school overall.