'08 MN RB Shady Salamon (Minnesota Signee)

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St. Paul (MN) Cretin-Derham Hall

Ht: 5-foot-10
Wt: 175 lbs
Forty: 4.55 secs
Bench max: 285 pounds
Squat max: 405 pounds
Vertical: 35 inches

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Led Cretin Derham Hall to a 10-1 mark and runner-up finish in Section 4, Class AAAAA. finished with 114 carries for 834 yards (7.3 yards per carry) with 16 touchdowns. He caught 28 passes for 288 yards (10.3 per reception) and three touchdowns. He was selected as an honorable mention Associated Press All-State selection.

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Raiders wide receiver Michael Floyd, Minnesota's most sought-after football recruit in six years, wasn't the sole center of attention. Although he had three receptions for 77 yards, he started the Raiders' spree by throwing an option pass and hitting Shady Salamon for a 24-yard touchdown on Cretin-Derham Hall's first play from scrimmage.

It was a play the two buddies had been working on since June.

"It was really nice to open up that way," Floyd said. "Shady is like a wide receiver anyway."

Floyd, ranked as the eighth-best high school wide receiver in the nation by recruiting Web site Rivals.com, caught a 37-yard pass to the Rangers' 1-yard line minutes later to set up another Salamon touchdown.

Salamon, a University of Minnesota recruit, scored four touchdowns in the first half and finished with 84 yards rushing on five carries. After two 1-yard scoring runs, he punctuated the Raiders' dominance with a 65-yard touchdown run on the final play of the first quarter.