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‘I’m ready to go’: Huskers land versatile West Coast playmaker Ashton Hayes | Recruiting





Steven M. Sipple, Parker Gabriel and Chris Basnett talk through a wild month of June so far in football recruiting and have a lengthy discussion about the Husker baseball team’s run in Fayetteville, Arkansas, and what the next steps for Will Bolt’s program look like. 







The worst game Ashton Hayes ever played came the first week of his junior season last fall.

The running back from Reno, Nevada had transferred from Damonte Ranch to McQueen, but the coronavirus pandemic had cut the season and all of the preparations short. After about a week of practice, Hayes rushed for only 50 yards on 28 carries behind an inexperienced offensive line.

It was a rough start for Hayes, who had piled up terrific numbers as a sophomore, when he rushed for 2,429 yards and 30 touchdowns and added 346 receiving yards and a pair of scores.

On the following Monday, McQueen head coach Jim Snelling found his highly touted running back doing something a bit outside the norm.

“He was there with the offensive line, pre-practice, working on the sled with them and just trying to make sure they knew he was in it with them,” Snelling said Thursday.

Hayes averaged about 140 yards per game over McQueen’s last four games. In the process, he whittled his 11 offers down to a pair of finalists in Cal and Nebraska. Then, after taking official visits to both schools over the first two weekends in June, he verbally pledged to the Cornhuskers on Thursday.

In fact, Hayes (5-foot-11, 180 pounds) told head coach Scott Frost that he knew Lincoln was the place for him before he left at the end of his official visit on Sunday. Frost told him to take a couple days and make sure and that the staff would be in touch with him this week.



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