WR Jalen Walthall transfers to Incarnate Word
Posted: Mon Feb 22, 2021 11:50 am
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A week after enduring the worst of Texas’ winter weather, receiver Jalen Walthall of Manvel High signed a letter of intent with the University of Hawaii football team this past Monday. Walthall will enroll at UH this summer.
“It just felt like the right place,” Walthall said in a telephone interview with the Star-Advertiser on Tuesday, “and I knew they believed in me.”
Walthall said he is 6 feet 3, 175 pounds, and capable of running 40 yards in 4.46 seconds. This past season, Walthall sparkled in Manvel’s Air Raid-type offense, with 45 catches for 1,045 yards and 17 touchdowns. He averaged 23.2 yards per reception. UH’s run-and-gun offense has elements of the Air Raid.
Manvel, located 20 miles from Houston, has been a perennial power in 5-A football. Quarterbacks Jalen Hurts of the Philadelphia Eagles and D’Eriq King of the University of Miami are Manvel alumni.
“It’s great to come from tradition,” Walthall said. “It also helps with recruiting. (College) coaches know when you come from a great program, you’re going to come in and give it your all. You’ll be respectful. You’re not going to talk back.”
When the pandemic escalated 11 months ago, Houston officials canceled on-campus visits from college coaches. Juniors usually are evaluated during the spring semester.
Walthall received offers from Wyoming and Tulane. But both schools rescinded after signing receivers off the transfer portal. Soon after the start of this month’s signing period for football prospects, the Rainbow Warriors contacted Walthall. He accepted the offer on Monday.
https://twitter.com/ScottProcter_/status/1395032054547550220Despite a sparkling senior campaign and more explosiveness than your typical three-star recruit (evidenced by a gold medal in the triple jump), Walthall didn’t garner the Power 5 interest he deserved. Tulane, Wyoming, in-state Texas Southern and about 10 other mid-major programs extended an offer, but Walthall knows things would’ve gone much differently had a pandemic not swept the world.
“I feel like COVID affected my recruiting in the worst way possible,” Walthall said. “We didn’t get spring ball, 7-on-7s or summer camps. Just nothing at the most crucial time. Scholarship offers were getting taken away and everybody’s in the transfer portal; it was a bad mix.
“I for sure would be at a Power 5 school (if not for COVID-19). But I’m just counting my blessings, I’m happy I have Hawaii and I’m just going to blow up out there.”
Walthall won’t suit up for a Power 5 program in the fall, but he will be where he’s wanted after committing to Hawaii in February.
“They (Hawaii) believed in me from day one,” Walthall said. “They told me and they showed me that they have complete confidence in me coming in and playing.”