The blend never screamed can’t miss, and plenty of folks have ended up missing on Karene Reid.
Cary Whittingham rattled it off, the memory of a linebacker who came to Utah’s Timpview High first as a physically underdeveloped underdog to his brother Gabe. Reid, as Whittingham described, was not especially tall (now 6-foot). Not especially thick (now 226 pounds). Not especially fast. No off-the-charts raw measurables.
“The thought was, ‘Yeah, he’s a great player, and he’s going to continue to play after high school,” Whittingham recalled. “But it’s hard to translate that into saying, ‘Yes, this kid’s an NFL player.