I believe you are right. I wondered the same thing.

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Ranking the best LDS players (post Lavell) who ended somewhere other than BYU.

robin

4/24/17 5:09pm

I'd put Teo third on that list.

84 Grad

4/24/17 5:26pm

Definitely no higher than #2--despite the national awards. A lot of that was his

mantis mutu

4/24/17 5:30pm

His awards influenced that ranking more than anything.

robin

4/24/17 5:54pm

That's definitely fair-thinking.

mantis mutu

4/24/17 6:03pm

How many of these are mission kids? I believe a lot don't choose BYU because

Vedo

4/24/17 7:58pm

I believe you are right. I wondered the same thing.

Bullrider

4/24/17 8:20pm

Manti's college girlfriend would disagree with you

D.T. Survivor

4/25/17 8:34am

Pretty sure Hunter Dimmick wasn't LDS--even though we recruited him hard.

mantis mutu

4/24/17 5:29pm

Edited. For some reason I thought I had read that Dimick was

robin

4/24/17 5:44pm

Yeah, I obviously mixed the details up on Hoge. Barely remember my posts there.

mantis mutu

4/24/17 5:51pm

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JimmyZ

4/24/17 5:29pm

Great work, thanks for listing for general knowledge.

goldy

4/24/17 5:31pm

Also, Iupati wasn't converted until after he got to college, IIRC

Sale

4/24/17 5:33pm

How is Chase Hansen so high? Also, Quinn Bailey needs to be on there.

Lip Gallagher

4/24/17 5:43pm

Didn't know Quinn Bailey was LDS. I'll add him to the list.

robin

4/24/17 5:58pm

If you're including kickers/punters

donnerstag

4/24/17 6:19pm

Bailey was a huge fail by Bronco.

Lip Gallagher

4/24/17 6:47pm

Pretty sure Eric Weddle should be #1 on that list.

Cheap Seats

4/24/17 8:20pm

I wouldn't include Weddle, because he wasn't LDS when he was being recruited I

cougaman

4/24/17 8:21pm

That could be. Im not aware of his conversion story, just that he's had a great

Cheap Seats

4/24/17 8:33pm

I believe there's also Chandler Cox at Auburn.

Lip Gallagher

4/24/17 5:46pm

Hau'oli Jamora should be very high on the list

donnerstag

4/24/17 6:05pm

Great catch

robin

4/24/17 6:26pm

I thought Jamora was NOT LDS.

Zach Morris

4/24/17 7:29pm

He is LDS

donnerstag

4/24/17 8:21pm

Are Dallas Lloyd and Dalton Schultz LDS?

mitchwhite221

4/24/17 6:30pm

Lloyd is, Schultz is not

tcherrin

4/24/17 7:01pm

Dallas served a mission & went to Pleasant Grove not Bingham. Fun fact is he's married to Blaine Fowler's daughter.

soupie

4/24/17 9:19pm

I propose public shaming at the next General Conference for this list

LeftCoastCoug

4/24/17 6:34pm

We should consult w/ Teo on how to do it most effectively.

mantis mutu

4/24/17 6:41pm

Jose Portilla should be somewhere

Modiolus

4/24/17 6:37pm

OK, post Lavell...got it.

Modiolus

4/24/17 6:39pm

Iupati is LDS? Didn't know that. He was drafted early by SF right?

cougaman

4/24/17 6:58pm

Was Zane Beadles LDS? I was under the impression that he wasn't.

cougaman

4/24/17 6:59pm

I guess not. I thought he was, but per his Twitter:

robin

4/24/17 7:30pm

Fantastic Job!

Blue Cat

4/24/17 6:59pm

If BYU actually landed all of these LDS players, would they have made playoffs?

BYUALWAYSNUM1

4/24/17 7:13pm

Paul Peterson

donnerstag

4/24/17 8:27pm

Impressive work.

BamaCoug

4/24/17 8:39pm

How did you find all this info? Must have taken a long time

BigTD

4/24/17 8:44pm

Manti above Haloti lol

GeraldGarner

4/24/17 8:53pm

College wise he might have been. He was the defensive leader of a team that went

cougaman

4/24/17 8:55pm

Agreed Haloti was a much bigger NFL prospect but Manti was the most

Yunit

4/25/17 5:17am

Pretty sure not all these kids are LDS

Thug Mormons

4/24/17 9:37pm

Yeah, it looks like the Vigils are not LDS, though it seems BYU did recruit Zach

robin

4/24/17 11:09pm

I don't have anything to say other than great job. That was interesting to see.

RdF3

4/25/17 10:31am

Amazing list. Does Leavitt really belong on it....

BabyOx

4/24/17 9:47pm

To be fair, I made him last on the list

robin

4/24/17 11:20pm

Not counting the recent recruits, based off the gap in playing years, 18% go on

CougarAndMerlin

4/24/17 10:30pm

You have a lot of Polys on the list that aren't LDS.

imcain801

4/24/17 11:04pm

Most of this is third hand or stuff people posted on cougarboard

robin

4/24/17 11:11pm

Stanley Havili - USC

NacoCoug

4/24/17 11:32pm

Jordan Cameron didn't play football in college, I THINK. & Thought i heard he

NotOfYourFaithBYUFAN

4/24/17 11:47pm

He played at USC after he left the BYU basketball team

molodyets

4/25/17 1:15am

Thanx. Just took a look @ wiki. He had enrollment issues (usc related not him)

NotOfYourFaithBYUFAN

4/25/17 2:03am

JT Mapu- about 10 years ago went to Tennessee- served a mission

Bill

4/25/17 2:40am

Yep. Add JT to the list.

CougaRR4L

4/25/17 12:14pm

JT should be on the "What the P-5 Doesn't Want You to Know About Missions" list

84 Grad

4/25/17 6:06pm

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Bill

4/25/17 2:40am

Look on the bright side, most of the UT signees were all KS commits. KS will

CObluezone

4/25/17 5:27am

Going to school with both Haloti and Stewart Bradley there was no way either of

TheLoneCougar

4/25/17 11:14am

Haloti wasn't taking any calls from BYU until Vai Sikahema

Yunit

4/27/17 1:46pm

We need The Brethren to say "Every LDS young man who wants to play football

CougaRR4L

4/25/17 12:17pm

But then that would be similar to Lucifer's plan.

Yunit

4/27/17 1:48pm

Hmmm. I can see why it was such a tough decision.

CougaRR4L

4/27/17 2:19pm

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LifelongAP

4/25/17 1:35pm

Garret Bolles

LifelongAP

4/25/17 1:35pm

Now we need someone to take these players and put them on BYU's team the

So it goes...

4/25/17 5:45pm

AKA, Cause yourself pain and come up with ultimate insult to Simi Fehoko.

PJMort

4/25/17 6:14pm

Wow, that’s great list, you need to add to it when you have time please.

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