Abu Kamara runs behind the block of Theo Demopoulos in a game against Oxford early last season. (Bill Rudick – For MediaNews Group)
By Matt Smith
Sometime soon a college football program will sign the steal of a lifetime.
His name is Abu Kamara, he owns a 4.4 GPA at Interboro High, and he is coming off one of the greatest individual seasons in the history of Delaware County football.
The first chance for prospective college football players to sign National Letters of Intent began Wednesday and lasts through Friday. Kamara may not be a part of that first wave of Division I-bound athletes, which suits him just fine. He is in no particular hurry to make a decision.
He said last week the list of interested programs is “medium sized.” It includes Iowa State, Penn State, Georgetown and Villanova. Ivy League schools are in contact, too. And, of course, every PSAC school is salivating at the idea that Kamara could come to their campus for the next four or five years.
Kamara picked up his first official offer last week. It’s from Yale.
“As of last year, before this season I was mainly trying to go to school for defense,” Kamara said. “But after this year, I’ve seen what I can do at a high level and … I realized that, on my film, if I can show colleges that I can run, show them my speed with my running back clips, and then also show them my technical defensive clips, it will be able to either offensively or defensively get me recruited.”
