Ronnie Daniels Disappears Into Oblivion

Ronnie Daniels
Albuquerque Journal - Maybe you heard. Late last month, the University of Washington received a verbal commitment from a hot young quarterback prospect.
If the kid follows through, he’ll arrive on U-Dub’s Seattle campus in 2017. Tate Martell is 14 years old.
Around here, Ronnie Daniels used to be Tate Martell. Daniels was the can’t-miss prospect with golden legs, breakaway speed and the unmistakable aura of a major talent. This was a kid who signed his first autograph at the age of 12. But somewhere along the line, this can’t-miss kid did, in fact, miss. Badly. And publicly.
What has become of Ronnie Daniels? You may as well ask a fifth-grader to try and read ancient Arabic. It’s a riddle no one seems able to solve. “Nobody’s heard anything,” said longtime family friend Alvin Meadors, a former coach of Daniels’ in AAU basketball. “I was at summer school this year at La Cueva, and nobody knows anything.” Since being thrown out of the Texas Tech football program in the spring, Daniels – a 2010 La Cueva graduate and surely one of the most exciting running backs New Mexico’s ever produced – has been, for all intents and purposes, in seclusion. Read full story here: News New Mexico
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