Highly recruited receiver Devin Duvernay earned his ticket to The Opening, the premier summer event for high school prospects at Nike headquarters in Oregon early July during the recent Dallas Nike Combine.
Duvernay, 5-11, 193 pounds of Sachse, Texas scored a SPARQ rating of 120.57 the day before competing at the Nike Football The Opening Regional in Arlington on March 15.
“It’s great, that’s why I came here, I wanted to get the invite to Oregon,” he said. “I wanted to come to get two opportunities to get invited.”
He recorded an electronic time of 4.38 seconds in the 40 yard dash along with a 37.7 vertical, 4.24 pro-shuttle and a power ball toss of 37 feet. His 40 time is the fast in the nation for a Nike SPARQ Combine.
With more than 30 scholarship offers, Duvernay is planning to hit the road this summer and visit schools like Auburn, Alabama, UCLA, Stanford, Oregon and Ohio State.
“I’m going to take summer visits this summer and narrow somethings down,” he said. “I hopefully I want to make up my mind at the end season next year.”
He and Arkansas running backs coach Jemal Singleton talked the day before the Dallas Nike Combine.
“I don’t know much about them,” said Duvernay, who communicates with Singleton on Twitter and the phone. “I haven’t been there. I watched them a lot this year. They’re a good team, they barely lost a lot of games. I’m going to try and get up there to see.”
He ran a 10.48 time in the 100 meters last year along with 21.4 seconds in the 200 meters.
“I’m going to try and get 10.3 hopefully, but we’ll see,” Duvernay said.
He may try to play football and run track in college.
“It’s a possibility, I'll try and see if everything works out and the coaches let me,” he said.
Environment, coaches and the ability to get to the NFL will play roles in his college decision.
“I want to go somewhere I feel comfortable and I trust the coaches and trust the people I’m around that’s going to develop me,” Duverney said. “And make me a better player and a better person and help me get to the NFL and coach me up.