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Drake Martinez RB 2013
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Another nice recent article on him:
In four games, Laguna Beach's Drake Martinez has 44 carries for 679 yards, or 15.4 per carry. (Courtesy/Doug Landrum, Laguna Beach Independent)
Well, he is Taylor Martinez's little brother.
In that regard, it makes sense that Drake Martinez possesses excellent speed.
"If I woke him up in the middle of the night and said, 'C'mon, Drake, we're going to go run a 40,' he'd run it in 4.5 seconds or faster," said Mike Churchill, the athletic director and head football coach at Laguna Beach (Calif.) High School.
Not only would Drake Martinez blaze through the late-night 40, he would do so willingly, the coach said.
"He's just a great kid," Churchill said. "He's quiet. He's not a loud-mouth bully or anything like that."
Drake Martinez, a 6-foot-3, 190-pound junior fullback and safety, recently received a verbal scholarship offer from Nebraska, where Taylor Martinez is the starting quarterback.
"Their dad (Casey Martinez) is kind of managing the whole thing," Churchill said. "The dad has kind of taken the attitude that — and I got this from the kid (Drake) — 'We don't want to talk about it. We'll talk about things like this next year.'"
Drake Martinez is giving folks plenty to chatter about this year. In four games, he has carried 44 times for 679 yards, or 15.4 per carry. He has three interceptions.
Laguna Beach High, with 1,000 students, is the smallest public high school in Orange County, Churchill said. The Breakers (4-0) play against schools with as many as 2,700 students, he said.
"We're running a Delaware wing-T," the coach said. "The thing that's to Drake's advantage is our halfback is a really good player. He's averaging 12 yards a carry, and the wingback is averaging 20 yards a carry.
"Here's the deal: You know how football coaches are copycats. Everybody's running that spread B.S. these days. So nobody knows how to defend the run. We're just slamming it at people."
Churchill, in his first season as Laguna Beach High's coach, has coached at 11 high schools, two junior colleges as well as Northern Arizona University. He obviously knows talent when he sees it.
"Drake's good enough to play at a lot of places," Churchill said.
Last season, Martinez played five different positions.
"When I got him, I said, 'Look, I'm going to make you a spot. I'm never going to move you, and you're going to be a great player there,' " Churchill said.
Martinez's speed is his strong suit.
"He just flat runs away from people," Churchill said. "He's running full speed after about 2 1/2 steps. He's just gone."
Sound familiar?
In four games, Laguna Beach's Drake Martinez has 44 carries for 679 yards, or 15.4 per carry. (Courtesy/Doug Landrum, Laguna Beach Independent)
Well, he is Taylor Martinez's little brother.
In that regard, it makes sense that Drake Martinez possesses excellent speed.
"If I woke him up in the middle of the night and said, 'C'mon, Drake, we're going to go run a 40,' he'd run it in 4.5 seconds or faster," said Mike Churchill, the athletic director and head football coach at Laguna Beach (Calif.) High School.
Not only would Drake Martinez blaze through the late-night 40, he would do so willingly, the coach said.
"He's just a great kid," Churchill said. "He's quiet. He's not a loud-mouth bully or anything like that."
Drake Martinez, a 6-foot-3, 190-pound junior fullback and safety, recently received a verbal scholarship offer from Nebraska, where Taylor Martinez is the starting quarterback.
"Their dad (Casey Martinez) is kind of managing the whole thing," Churchill said. "The dad has kind of taken the attitude that — and I got this from the kid (Drake) — 'We don't want to talk about it. We'll talk about things like this next year.'"
Drake Martinez is giving folks plenty to chatter about this year. In four games, he has carried 44 times for 679 yards, or 15.4 per carry. He has three interceptions.
Laguna Beach High, with 1,000 students, is the smallest public high school in Orange County, Churchill said. The Breakers (4-0) play against schools with as many as 2,700 students, he said.
"We're running a Delaware wing-T," the coach said. "The thing that's to Drake's advantage is our halfback is a really good player. He's averaging 12 yards a carry, and the wingback is averaging 20 yards a carry.
"Here's the deal: You know how football coaches are copycats. Everybody's running that spread B.S. these days. So nobody knows how to defend the run. We're just slamming it at people."
Churchill, in his first season as Laguna Beach High's coach, has coached at 11 high schools, two junior colleges as well as Northern Arizona University. He obviously knows talent when he sees it.
"Drake's good enough to play at a lot of places," Churchill said.
Last season, Martinez played five different positions.
"When I got him, I said, 'Look, I'm going to make you a spot. I'm never going to move you, and you're going to be a great player there,' " Churchill said.
Martinez's speed is his strong suit.
"He just flat runs away from people," Churchill said. "He's running full speed after about 2 1/2 steps. He's just gone."
Sound familiar?
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I see he's been offered by Nebraska already according to his Rival's page.
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It'll be interesting to see for what position. At 6'3", 190lbs with sub 4.5 speed, WR would seem to be the ideal position, assuming he as good hands. Either that or at Safety or CB, although he probably lacks the necessary melanin for playing CB.