Offers Pending for Hard Hitting FS
Junior to Watch: Chet Sanders
School: Carson, Calif.
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Position: Free Safety/Wide Receiver
Size and Speed: Sanders stands 6-foot-1, weighs 185 pounds and runs the 40 in 4.45. He benches 315, squats 540, and recorded a 39-inch at the Nike Combine held at USC last Sunday.
Honors: Sanders was selected all-city, all-area and all-league as a junior. He was also selected to the prestigious Long Beach Telegram’s Dream Team (HM).
Statistics: Sanders amassed 54 tackles, six pass deflections and four picks as a junior.
Favorite Colleges: Sanders is already hearing from everybody and he has pending offers from Arizona State and Cal. Other schools in the mix are USC, Oregon, Oregon State, Washington State, Miami, and Tennessee.
Skinny: “Chet is arguably the best safety prospect that Carson high has ever had,” former Carson assistant coach (now with Compton College) Derrick Collins said. “Based on all the tangibles of height, weight, speed and hitting ability. Chet is the complete package. He can run, hit and cover.”
Sanders is very coachable player and intelligent. “Chet catches on very quickly,” Collins said. “He is also a very good leader.”
Many locals feel that Sanders is the second best safety prospect in southern California after Randy Estes. Like Estes he’ is very rangy player who plays an outstanding centerfield. He possesses vision and he’s a lights out hitter.
Sanders will also play some wide receiver as a senior and will return punts and kicks in 2003.