Eagle’s Ben Ford, Rocky Mountain’s Jordan Erickson dedicate to Boise State football

BOISE, Idaho — Two of Idaho’s top rated prep football players are staying close to residence, opting to engage in football at Boise State this tumble.

Jordan Erickson, who performed extensive receiver at Rocky Mountain, and Ben Ford, who performed quarterback at Eagle, experienced many presents from big-identify plans but selected to keep property.

“Honestly, which is usually been my desire, even with actively playing optimist, participating in in fourth grade in the jamboree, and getting in a position to participate in on the blue turf, that’s just form of been the desire,” Erickson mentioned. “Usually developed up wanting to do it and now the time has arrive to be ready to do it, so I’m pleased about it.”

Erickson acquired initially-crew all-Idaho honors this drop, serving to lead the Grizzlies to the 5A point out title. A weapon as a working back and receiver, he finished this fall with 1,365 all-intent yards and 18 whole touchdowns. 

Obtaining the opportunity to engage in shut to home and to be a portion of a software he admired developing up was a massive component of his choice to enjoy at Boise Point out.

“That’s kind of the huge factor when I was selecting wherever I required to go,” Erickson stated. “The area was huge and I love it below, so it implies a good deal to me.”

He will join a number of other previous Rocky Mountain standouts who played for the Broncos, including Kekoa Nawahine.

“That is a huge a person, looking at him occur from Rocky Mountain and looking at him do what he did, that was really wonderful,” Erickson explained of Nawahine.

Erickson will join the plan as a most popular stroll-on, a title that tends to make him hungry for more achievement.

“It is almost much better for me as a wander-on,” he stated. “It will make me work harder and I’m psyched about it.”

Erickson will join former Eagle High quarterback Ben Ford on the Broncos’ roster this fall.

Although they played for rival teams in substantial school, their friendship blossomed, both in-year and in the offseason, at a regional health and fitness center for high college and college or university athletes.

“We’ve usually labored out jointly at OffTheField and we get along very effectively, far too,” Erickson mentioned. “I like him, I like to be all over him and I are unable to wait to perform with him the future four decades.”

Explained Ford, “I see Jordan every working day at OffTheField and we talk about ‘what are you carrying out? What are you hearing?’ None of us have acknowledged until finally today and it’s just tremendous amazing, I am likely to be psyched to be his teammate, for certain.”

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Ford earned the Idaho Substantial University Player of the Yr honors this earlier tumble. He averaged 11.5 yards for each have even though racking up over 2,000 full yards and 26 touchdowns in leading the Mustangs again to the 5A condition playoffs.

“It can be these types of a desire occur genuine, you know it really is nuts to believe about the actuality that I was a youthful child viewing them and now it truly is going to be me up there participating in on Television set and participating in on the blue turf and staying at observe each working day with the staff and the guys, so I’m just extremely, pretty energized about it,” Ford said.

Boise Point out supplied him a scholarship previous 7 days.

“At that position, I was continue to trying to come to a decision about baseball and all of that,” he claimed. “Clearly, that was a excellent chance, I realized that and I was making an attempt to weigh the selections.”

Ford experienced at first fully commited to enjoy baseball at the University of Washington but decommitted previous summertime to open up up his soccer recruiting.

“[Football is] just a little something that I’ve accomplished for so extended and baseball became a huge part of my life, too,” he reported. “But it really is just generally been football for me and when I acquired this opportunity, I couldn’t see why I need to move it up.”

Equally Ford and Erickson claimed new head mentor Andy Avalos, who rejoined the program in January as head mentor, had a lot to do with their decision.

“Ahead of the coaching change, I had in no way spoken to [then-head coach Bryan] Harsin just one time… and I just failed to believe that would ever take place with BSU,” Ford reported. “I know Matt Miller was over there pushing for me and trying to get him to speak to me and [Avalos] reached out inside a couple of times of him getting employed and it just showed a lot of what he cares about the method and how he goes about his business and I really like the man for sure.”

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“That new vitality coming in, specifically with all the other coaches coming in way too, it’s remarkable to be able to be apart of that and they obtained a whole lot of electrical power, so I love that,” Erickson included.

Both program to signal their Countrywide Letters of Intent (NLI) on Wednesday during Nationwide Signing Working day.

Linked: 2021 Southern Idaho school commitments signing list

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