Carl Reed: Wrestling Does NOT Help Football Players

[SiuCubFan8]

I think way to much thought is being put into this, playing other sports is good, period.

 

[Kevin JCHS 81]

Also, how can we forget the most commonly mentioned football player on this board, the GOAT, John Dergo, was also a 2 time IL State Champion Wrestler and Big Ten Wrestler at U of I. Wonder if wrestling helped him....

Never heard of him.

 

[crusader_of_90]

Or the one and only Nick Nasti!

 

[colin2229]

Sequan Barkley Wrestling

Good enough for the best RB on the planet.

 

[MS4EVER]

I think WWS once had a 155# DT who was a wrassler. Somehow that team beat MC like a drum if I'm remembering the year correctly. @ClownBaby will have to confirm

Also LWE had a 150# LB who wrassled, was the kid that injured the 🐐 Aaron Bailey which was the reason we didn't win it all in 2012.

Obvious exceptions to the rule

I think his name was Sparty Chino from WWS. He was 5’6 maybe a buck and a half!!

 

[stripes13]

I think way to much thought is being put into this, playing other sports is good, period.

There’s a Twitter/X account that’ll post stats on the amount of players drafted in that years NFL Draft who were multi-sport athletes. Something like 65-75%. Track and wrestling are always the highest.

 

[kwamizee]

Strongly disagree is not strong enough of a word. Ask Warren's Aaron Stewart. Heavyweight wrestling is a different animal. You can't wrestle the same as a heavy as you can as a middleweight. Lot of it is quickness, balance and brute strength and of course conditioning. If they don't think balance and conditioning helps a football player then I I don't know what does. Football players who are legit wrestlers also have outstanding footwork

Aaron Stewart is a kid who comes around once every 15 years, IE Juwan Akui. Balance and footwrk are a plus but having lose weight doesn't help in long term football development. Wrestling makes sense to me if you came into high school a wrestler if you are a skill guy. Wrestling helps a OL/DL if it helps any football player at all.

 

[SiuCubFan8]

Aaron Stewart is a kid who comes around once every 15 years, IE Juwan Akui. Balance and footwrk are a plus but having lose weight doesn't help in long term football development. Wrestling makes sense to me if you came into high school a wrestler if you are a skill guy. Wrestling helps a OL/DL if it helps any football player at all.

Do many kids come into HS not a wrestler and wrestle? I would think that is more an anomaly.
Maybe I am wrong, admittedly I am not a HS wrestling expert.

 

[missingwalter]

Do many kids come into HS not a wrestler and wrestle? I would think that is more an anomaly.
Maybe I am wrong, admittedly I am not a HS wrestling expert.

Quite a few are encouraged to Wrestle if they don’t have a winter sport

 

[SiuCubFan8]

Quite a few are encouraged to Wrestle if they don’t have a winter sport

thank you

 

[AmbroseBlack]

There’s a Twitter/X account that’ll post stats on the amount of players drafted in that years NFL Draft who were multi-sport athletes. Something like 65-75%. Track and wrestling are always the highest.

Is the account Tracking Football? Because, according to their breakdown of the 2020 NFL draft (the latest one I could find) wrestling had the second lowest participation rate of players drafted that played multiple sports:

This year 217 out of 255 (85%) players drafted were multiple sport athletes in high school

Participation percentages by sport:

Track & Field: 143 (56%)

Basketball: 113 (44%)

Baseball: 28 (11%)

Soccer: 7 (3%)

Wrestling: 5 (2%)

Lacrosse, Powerlifting, Rugby, Swimming: 7 (3%)

Insights on 2020 NFL Draft selections as high school multiple sport athletes