This is all very true
A message from every professional baseball scout to every high school and college potential baseball prospect.
We're always watching!
EVERY. SINGLE. LOOK.
Pregame work. I/O. BP. Bullpens. Intrasquads. Scrimmages and regular season games. Every one of those is a look — and every look is being written down.
How you run to first base… or do you run to first base. How you move on the field and off the field. How you throw between innings. How you take BP when you think no scout is watching. How you execute pitches in a side session or between innings warming up. How you handle or process a poor at bat. Whether you’re coachable or whether you’re not. And how you treat your teammates.
First one on the field?
Last one off the field?
It’s ALL being noted.
All of it.
Get to the Big Leagues first—before trying to act like those in the TV league. You’re not.
Scouts aren't just evaluating your tools. We're evaluating everything: your habits, your effort, your work ethic, and your character. The player who gives effort every rep stands out — because so few do it consistently.
Newsflash…Scouts don’t care about your “ranking” or what publications write about you (positive or negative). Scouts don’t care how much NIL money you’re getting, or if you’re getting any at all. We’ll make our own evaluations and our own decisions.
Be intentional. Play hard. No matter the setting, the score, the competition or who's in the stands. When you don't, you're only hurting yourself, and you’re to blame.
There is not much you can control in this game — but the one thing you can control is your effort, your work ethic, and your hustle.
Because when you least expect it, someone is ALWAYS watching, and you never know which look is the one that matters.
Winners Win!
Make. Every. Look. Count.
He’s going to come back stronger than ever. Will not turn 18 until late April
2 months post TJ surgery and starting to get back into the swing of lifting heavy in the weight room. Hitting legs and core followed with some basketball to help maintain my athleticism, can't wait to get back on the field! 💪
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Dohnte Meyers went undrafted in 2023 out of Delta State, a Division II school in Mississippi.
He got a tryout at Atlanta Falcons rookie minicamp. It didn't take.
So he started driving for DoorDash.
Train during the day. Deliver food at night. Sometimes until 2 or 3 in the morning. Then get up and do it again, waiting for a football phone call that wasn't coming.
Eventually he heard about an open tryout in Atlanta for the Saskatchewan Roughriders of the CFL.
It cost $100 to participate. Out of pocket. His own money, from delivering food, for a chance to stand on a field with a few hundred other guys hoping somebody was watching.
He paid it.
"I balled out," Meyers said later.
Saskatchewan signed him to a futures contract in October 2023.
Then everything went wrong again. A broken hand delayed his 2024 debut. A separated shoulder ended his season early. Two years into professional football and he'd barely played.
"That was the only thing that could really provide some stability," Meyers said about leaning on his faith through that stretch.
Then 2025 happened.
65 catches. 1,056 yards. 8 touchdowns. CFL West Division All-Star. And a Grey Cup, Canada's championship, with Saskatchewan.
A Bengals scouting executive whose job is watching other pro leagues flagged him. Cincinnati brought him in for a January workout and signed him to a reserve/future contract.
That's usually where these stories end. A camp body in a receiver room that already has Ja'Marr Chase and Tee Higgins.
Here's the part that changed it.
The week before training camp, Joe Burrow texted him asking if he was in town for a throwing session.
Meyers was in Atlanta. The workout was the next morning at 11.
He said yes anyway, got in the car with his brother riding shotgun, and drove seven hours through the night. About 460 miles. He walked into that session on no sleep.
Burrow only found out about the drive afterward, face to face.
"I texted him, 'Hey, are you in town?' He's like, 'I can be.' I was like, 'Can you be here tomorrow at 11?' He's like, 'Yeah,'" Burrow said. "Come to find out he drove from Atlanta that night to be there to throw the next day. That's the kind of guy that he is."
Meyers explained it simply.
"Whether I've got to fly, whether I've got to drive, if the quarterback says he wants to throw, I'm ready to work. I'm not gonna let him outwork me. If he's ready to throw, I'm ready to catch."
Through three preseason games, he caught 11 passes for 121 yards, added 22 rushing yards, and 99 return yards. He took first-team reps with Burrow. The two of them stayed 40 minutes after one practice working on routes.
Today, Cincinnati cut down to 53 players.
Wide receivers coach Troy Walters called him on FaceTime to tell him.
"The sweet part about it is I get to tell a guy who worked out for us last December, came from the CFL and then we signed in February, spent hours in the coaches' office studying the playbook, made plays in the preseason. I just wanted to personally tell you congratulations for making the 53-man roster."
Meyers is 26 years old, 5-foot-11, 186 pounds. Three years ago he was delivering food and scraping together a hundred dollars for a tryout in another country.
On September 13th, he'll be on an NFL field catching passes from Joe Burrow.
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The NFL is shit rotten
NFL needs to fuck off with this shit. They do realize that they are implying that their fans are racists and full of hate?? I promise you no racist asshole is gonna stop being a racist asshole because they saw “End Racism” in the Cowboys endzone. Enough already. Im tired of being lectured to by the elites. Fuck off @NFL
Great get for the Rice program
I’m blessed and excited to announce my commitment to continue my academic and baseball career at Rice University! 🦉All glory to God! 🙏
Thank you to my family, coaches, teammates, and everyone who has believed in me, poured into me, and helped me become the player and person I am today. Some of you have been there since the very beginning, and others were placed in my life exactly when I needed them. God’s timing is always perfect.
The best is yet to come. Go Owls! ⚾️
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Big projectable body with a hammer. 88-90. Late birthday just turned 17. Elite upside. He looks like he’s 14 years old.
Ceylan Williams(@ceylanwilliams) RHP 6 3 175 Hudson HS #ACGames26 from Sam Houston State University.
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Elite bat speed
Jorvorskie Lane, C/OF
The Arkansas commit is a powerful athlete and righthanded hitter who boasts some of the more enticing bat speed in the prep class.
More on Lane and other MLB Draft Combine standouts:
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Old school grinder
It seems more and more likely that Florida will indeed hire Todd Butler from Oklahoma. Massive get for Sully. Hightop Sports will have a video on the hire and a wrap up of Omaha posted tomorrow. Be sure to tune in and subscribe!
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