SALT LAKE CITY — Julian Blackmon is proud of where he comes from.
A three-sport star at Layton High, Blackmon was the starting point guard on a state championship team, a state champion long jumper, and a star receiver on the football team.
Yet despite his accomplishments in high school (and a broken hand that curtailed his senior year), he had very few offers to play football at the next level. Only one Power 5 school gave him an offer — but Utah was all he needed.
"I was actually speechless when they offered me. I didn’t know what to say," Blackmon told KSL Sports back in 2015.