{"id":4327,"date":"2021-09-14T15:53:02","date_gmt":"2021-09-14T20:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gridironstuds.com\/blog\/?p=4327"},"modified":"2021-09-14T15:53:02","modified_gmt":"2021-09-14T20:53:02","slug":"underrated-studs-deville-dickerson-lompoc-ca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gridironstuds.com\/blog\/underrated-studs-deville-dickerson-lompoc-ca\/","title":{"rendered":"Underrated Studs: Deville Dickerson &#8211; Lompoc, CA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By: Chad Wilson &#8211; Editor GridironStuds Blog<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Twitter: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/gridironstuds\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@gridironstuds<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t kick the ball to Deville!\u00a0 You&#8217;ve been warned.\u00a0 If quickness and speed are the traits you are looking for then you have found them in this prospect.\u00a0 Dickerson flashed in his junior campaign by running down players on defense and running by defenders on offenses.\u00a0 This season he has added elite return man to his resume.<\/p>\n<p>Three games into his senior season and Dickerson has six kick return TDs (4 punts, 2 kickoffs).\u00a0 Both of the kickoff returns have been to open the game putting Lompoc&#8217;s opponents behind the 8-ball right off of the bat.\u00a0 Dickerson may remind some of another Lompoc High School graduate by the name of Napoleon Kaufman.\u00a0 Kaufman was also a tad undersized as a high schooler but was a total menace on the gridiron.\u00a0 He would take his talents to the University of Washington and then to the Oakland Raiders.\u00a0 Much like Kaufman,\u00a0 Dickerson has the speed to strike from anywhere on the field.<\/p>\n<p>Dickerson lists himself as a defensive back but I am not so sure that he isn&#8217;t an offensive weapon at the next level.\u00a0 Lompoc certainly gets the most out of him by using him on offenses, defense and in the return game.\u00a0 If there&#8217;s one thing he&#8217;s going to do,\u00a0 it&#8217;s make a play.\u00a0 Dickerson&#8217;s torrid pace to rewrite the kick return record books may hit a snag along the way as I am certain that teams are going to elect to stop kicking to him.\u00a0 If and when they do,\u00a0 you can bet that Dickerson will always be a threat to send the ball back where it came from.\u00a0 He is definitely a high level talent that should make noise on the college football gridiron in years to come.\u00a0 Idaho St., San Diego St. and William &amp; Mary are his current offers with more certainly to arrive in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gridironstuds.com\/Player\/Details\/262435\/Deville_Dickerson\"><strong>Check out Deville Dickerson&#8217;s profile on the GridironStuds App &#8211; Click here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By: Chad Wilson &#8211; Editor GridironStuds Blog Twitter: @gridironstuds Don&#8217;t kick the ball to Deville!\u00a0 You&#8217;ve been warned.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":4329,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1054],"tags":[1135,1086,1133,1132,1134],"class_list":["post-4327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-underrated-studs","tag-2022-prospects","tag-cornerback","tag-deville","tag-dickerson","tag-lompoc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gridironstuds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gridironstuds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gridironstuds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gridironstuds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gridironstuds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gridironstuds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4327\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gridironstuds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gridironstuds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gridironstuds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gridironstuds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}