Charles Woodson High School Highlights Video (28 minutes)

Submitted by UMCoconut on

I don't think I have seen this posted before, but a 28-minute video of high school highlights from Charles Woodson emerged recently on YouTube.  Pretty cool to watch Chuck in these videos knowing the career he would go on to have in college and the NFL.  I don't know how to embed, but here's the link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SG0Zeixfa5A&feature=youtu.be

 

FauxMo

April 19th, 2016 at 8:34 PM ^

The whole time I watched that video (well, the few minutes I watched), all I could think was: "Back, and to the left....back, and to the left...back, and to the left..."

Wolfman

April 19th, 2016 at 9:07 PM ^

It is odd that we'd get two of Ross's best some twenty years apart, one to win the Heisman, one to finish third. About 7, 8 years before Woodson's arrival another pair of h.s. teammates came in together one qt QB - Elvis and the other another Heisman winner, Desmond. St. Joe's I believe. I want to know if Lytle and Woodson - Lytle left as our all time leading rusher as well as AA and third in the  Heisman, as mentioned above.  He did this despite spending large parts of two seasons as a FB - were the best duo we ever got from the same school. My guess would be yes. Opinions????

kevin holt

April 20th, 2016 at 8:55 AM ^

That's a very high bar indeed. If Peppers gives us 2 more years (or if he hadn't gotten hurt) or goes insane this year, and Gary lives up to the hype, they would at least be in the conversation (though I still would put Woodson and Lytle higher of course, unless the Paramus boys go REALLY nuts).

Also I assume Cass Tech doesn't count because it's a much wider pipeline than any other school and we've had a lot more than 2 from there

Wolfman

April 20th, 2016 at 2:06 AM ^

That's a workable acronym. How fast is he?  FAF. I like it. You don't have to give a 40 time, no 100 time. Fast as fuck, if asked in any situation sports related simply transfers to, "unless you have someone FT(faster than)FAF, then yeah, he's your man."

And as another poster stated about him, Everything about him translates to man. Paraprased somewhat. But I'm guessing Fremont was blue collar, hard working people. To get two of, possibly  the  best two that school has ever produced says a ton. And consider he and Lytle were separated by roughly 20 years. Don't know how big that town is but the odds of producing two of the best three players in the nation -and in one case so damn good he made Archie cry - in their respective final years speaks to some solid roots.

BigT

April 19th, 2016 at 10:32 PM ^

I'm from Tiffin, home of Columbian High School, the first team in the highlights (though I went to the Catholic School, Calvert). I remember his senior year, everyone being so proud that they held him to like 130 yards. I don't think we will ever have another athlete like that come out of NW Ohio, which is not a usual football hotbed.

Wolfman

April 19th, 2016 at 10:35 PM ^

These coaches definitely know which side of the ball is most important when building a team. The highlights of these two guys at RB in h.s. made it easy in Charles's case for everyone but UM to offer him as a RB. Floyd and Williams, I think were our RBs, making that choice even more difficult. I think though there was just something about this man that no matter where he would have ended up other than Michigan that his once in a lifetime corner skills for a coach would have become evident and they would have put him there within the first three to four games.

I can recall, even more so than that incredible int against MSU, his second pick against OSU to seal the victory as a freshman. Hell everyone knew from the announcers to both fan bases. Thank God Woody wasn't around to see the best player from the state of OH put the knife into the back of his team. He would have used a group of words indicating nothing less than a damn traitor. But in the end, he would have given him his due.

When you think of our Mt. Rushmore of cfb players and Harmon, Desmond, Charles and A.C., it is fitting. Charles said that award meant as much to him as any other. I have always thought A.C. was the greatest player I've ever watched to  not win the Heisman and his numbers are so close to Desmond's in both receptions and return yardage, but he just wasn't used enough I guess, but he did set the bar high for all to follow. I think it's somewhat fitting that Harmon is first and Charles the final piece. The other two, without a doubt, our two greatest receivers but Tom and Charles were just football players and incredible no matter where they were lined up. That is quite a quartet.

Stevedez

April 20th, 2016 at 2:16 AM ^

At least my high school team only had 4 or so highlights in this clip. I remember cheering FOR him our senior year against Ross because he was going to go to Michigan. He only scored 6 of their 7 TDs against us... disappointing effort if you ask me.

CarlosSpicyweiner21

April 20th, 2016 at 7:08 AM ^

I grew up 15 min from him and remember watching games or seeing the highlights on the news every Friday. This was before recruiting was huge and I thought he was going to be a beast at RB and receiver. Then I read in the local paper he want to play defense.



He was amazing in high school and never stopped. Was fun to see that on a weekly basis and also see it from not a hot bed area for D1 talent. He instantly became my favorite player. Even while playing for the Raiders whom I loath as a Denver fan.

1VaBlue1

April 20th, 2016 at 9:39 AM ^

I dunno.,..  I'm kind of disappointed in Mr. Woodson's sportsmanship - it was just not fair of him to play football against high school kids.  He should have gone straight to UM for 8 years of football, that would have been more fair to his competition.

Someone mentioned the deceptive speed thing earlier (as one of the excellent announcers did, also), and I'll agree.  He looked fairly pedestrian speed-wise, unlike those O'Maury Samuels highlights (where he is obviously FLYING).  And that, to me, is the deceptive part, because there was nothing pedestrian about that man's flat out speed on a football field.  He  was FAF.

What a great way to start off a work day!