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'06 VA WR/CB Damon McDaniel (Florida State signee; transfer to Hampton)

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bobcat84 said:
man, what a godsend to get both DM and a coup to get Percy Harvin to join him on 9/10....I hope the staff is trying to do just that.
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i'm sure everyone is trying to do that but i can almost guarantee that wont happen. harvin has never even considered us from all that i have read. before the pre evulution top 100 came out, harvin was the number one player according to rivals and he never once said anything about us.
 
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5 – WR Damon McDaniel – 6-0, 195, 4.5, Landstown
With the top player in the country on your team, McDaniel’s talent may sometimes be undervalued. But he is an excellent receiver in his own right. McDaniel possesses good speed, but what separates him in my opinion are his strength and aggressiveness. He will go get the ball and is a very tough player. He loves to block.
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TechSideline.com Recruiting Report, 2/17/05 (MP3 Audio)
From last Thursday: Mike Harris and Chris Horne talk about late VT signee Todd Nolen, then take a sneak peek at recruits from the class of 2006, concentrating on players from central Virginia and the two rising seniors from Landstown (Va Beach), Percy Harvin and Damon McDaniel. (Time: 23:12 minutes, Size: 5.6 MB)
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McDaniel promises to be one of the top 10 players in the state in the 2006 class. As a junior, he made 68 catches for 1,106 yards and 15 touchdowns. He was electronically timed at 4.51 in the 40 during the Army All-American bowl junior combine in January of 2005.

Coach Chris Beatty: “He plays receiver for us. We move him around. We do a lot with our receivers, so he plays some running back. But he’s a receiver – that’s what he plays and that’s what he does. He’s got great speed. He’s very powerful. He can run through arm tackles and gets off of press coverage. And he’s got a great set of hands. He attacks the ball in the air. He doesn’t’ wait for it to come to him so he’ll take away a lot of interceptions and make big catches just because he goes after the ball so hard.”
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Harvin, host of newcomers get Landstown rolling along
By JAMI FRANKENBERRY, The Virginian-Pilot
© September 2, 2005

VIRGINIA BEACH — The pass-first offense.

The big plays.

The pre-game swagger .

All typical Landstown High School football.

But the Eagles mixed in some talented newcomers to get their usual Beach District result.

A transfer quarterback, a basketball player-turned receiver and a freshman running back had fine performances to help defending Group AAA Division 6 state champion Landstown open the season with a 64-18 victory over Tallwood on Thursday night.

Sure, playmakers Percy Harvin (three touchdowns, 82 receiving yards) and Damon McDaniel (88 receiving yards and a TD) did plenty of damage. But Donny Kirby, a quarterback who played last season at Great Bridge, threw for 255 yards; Rashad Phillips, a 6-foot-4 post player on the Eagles basketball team, added 84 receiving yards and three touchdowns; and ninth-grader Dominique Palmer scored on a 63-yard run.

“Those guys help you balance up the field when everybody wants to play Percy and Damon,” Eagles coach Chris Beatty said.

Added Harvin, “You can’t just double-team me and Damon because we’ve got some more threats.”

Still, Harvin was Harvin as Landstown improved to 21-0 against Beach teams since Beatty arrived in 2003.

Harvin, a consensus top-10 national recruit, scored on a 34-yard interception return, an 89-yard kickoff return and a 25-yard punt return. His punt return, which came 14 seconds into the fourth quarter, put the Eagles ahead 64-6 and ushered Landstown’s starters to the sideline .

“I knew most teams this season were going to try to stop me on offense,” said Harvin, who caught seven passes . “So I’ve just got to do what I do on punt returns and kick returns and get picks on defense. I know I’m only going to get but so many plays on offense.”

On Thursday, Harvin had plenty of help on offense anyway.

Kirby completed 14 of 22 passes without an interception. He threw for three touchdowns. Kirby dropped in a perfect spiral to McDaniel for an 80-yard touchdown and threw 15- and 32-yard scoring passes to Phillips.

Phillips, meanwhile, made a triumphant return to football after taking last year off.

A longtime friend of Harvin and McDaniel, he decided to join the duo for his senior year. He finished with four receptions for 84 yards and blocked a punt and returned it 20 yards for a touchdown.

“I just wanted to play football again,” Phillips said. “I kind of missed it.”

Tallwood trailed just 7-0 after the first quarter but surrendered 27 second-quarter points and 23 more in the third period.


Reach Jami (757) 446-2295 or at [email protected]
 
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