Picayune Running Back Dante Dowdell signs with Oregon Ducks, Zavion Coleman with Louisiana - WXXV News 25

Back successful May, Picayune moving backmost Dante Dowdell enactment connected rather the amusement astatine his committedness ceremony, trying connected 3 antithetic sets of gloves earlier yet landing connected Oregon.

Between past and now, Dowdell is the arrogant proprietor of different 5A State Championship, but that’s the lone happening that’s changed arsenic helium stays existent to the Ducks 7 months later.

This afternoon, Dowdell signed his National Letter of Intent with Oregon contempt a past 2nd propulsion from Ole Miss, who surely gave the four-star enlistee thing to deliberation astir implicit the past 48 hours.

In the end, Dowdell made bully connected his verbal pledge arsenic 1 of the astir decorated precocious schoolhouse shot players to ever travel retired of the Magnolia State.

Not lone is helium a two-time authorities champion, he’s a two-time authorities rubric crippled MVP, Mr. Football for Class 5A, U.S Army Bowl All-American, Mississippi-Alabama All-Star Game Selection and, of course, a erstwhile News 25 Student Athlete of the Week.

Over the people of his four-year varsity career, Dowdell rushed for much than 5,300 yards and 65 touchdowns, 59 of those coming implicit the past 2 years, arsenic helium goes retired with 26 consecutive wins.

Dowdell said, “It feels good. I’ve been present for 4 years. I’ve been present for the archetypal title loss, the first-round playoff nonaccomplishment and the back-to-back authorities championships, truthful it feels bully to extremity it connected a bully note. All the hard enactment pays disconnected and it yet you get thing to amusement for it. Ole Miss was connected maine truly hard. They astir apt called maine astir 20 times yesterday and today, but I knew I was signed to Oregon, truthful that’s the extremity of it. I’m not truly disquieted astir the weather. You mightiness extremity up getting drafted by the Buffalo Bills. You’re going to go. You ain’t going to crook ’em down, truthful I’m conscionable acceptable to accommodate to that, larn caller things, and conscionable caller people. We made past here, truthful it was a large squad and hopefully they tin spell triumph it again adjacent twelvemonth and we tin found a dynasty here.”

Dowdell says helium has nary plans to redshirt and volition study to Eugene connected January 6^th.

Another Division I signee, antiaircraft lineman Zavion Coleman is heading to the University of Louisiana. He was a large portion of that Maroon Tide defence that gave up little than 12 points per crippled en way to the program’s first-ever cleanable season. Coleman besides represented Mississippi successful the Mississippi-Alabama All-Star Classic.