Dallas Goedert Leaps from Small-Town Hero to the Top of the Tight End Class

Dallas Goedert’s home town of Britton, South Dakota, is so small that the football teams only have nine players and the bicycles only have one wheel. cheap nike nfl jerseys free shipping

“You can tour the whole city in about two minutes,” says Goedert, arguably the top tight end in this year’s draft class, as well as an avid unicyclist. “After that, you’re on your own.”

The only traffic light is a flasher in the middle of town. The nearest McDonald’s is an hour away, though there is a Subway and a summer-only ice cream stand. There are no malls or movie theaters for miles in every direction. Just farms, lakes and game reserves.

Britton is so small that it’s hard to tell whether folks from there are pulling your leg when they tell you how small it is.nike nfl jerseys cheap china

“Sometimes, our parades are so small that they go through town twice,” says Pat Renner, head coach of Britton-Hecla High School’s nine-man football team.

Britton is so small that, ironically, it was hard for a Paul Bunyan-sized prospect like Goedert to stick out. Not only did the big colleges overlook him, but even South Dakota State had a hard time noticing him.

But the NFL finally discovered Goedert, thanks to an attentive clergymen and a viral highlight. Now, the 6’5″ tight end atop the six-foot unicycle is a likely first-round pick, and he’s poised to make Britton more than just an imperceptible speck on the map.china nike nfl jerseys cheap

The Discovery

Britton is so small, it takes an act of god to get recruited for football.

Goedert was the star of his nine-man football team, but he was a young man without a position. With just 25 players on his roster, Coach Renner did everything possible to get the ball into the hands of his most talented player.cheap nfl nike jerseys from china

At first, Renner tried Goedert as a Cam Newton-style option quarterback. But the underclassman wasn’t ready for a life of plunging between the tackles on keepers.

“He wasn’t real physical then,” Renner recalls. “He didn’t like to lower his shoulder that much when we tried to run him.”

Goedert then began sliding all over the formation on offense and defense. In the red zone, Goedert could usually be found at wide receiver. “We’d just send him into the end zone for jump balls, and he could jump higher than anyone,” Renner says.

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