All his life, Taylor Rapp has heard how rare and unique he is.
“He was about 8 or 9 the first time he started playing flag football and he was just smoking everybody on the field,” Rapp’s father Chris said. “They’d give him the ball and say go and he’d just run around people.
“They couldn’t give him the ball all the time because it would be a boring game. That’s when we knew he had some ability.”
Bellingham doesn’t produce many Division I athletes and yet the former three-star recruit from Sehome High has quickly matured into a strong safety star for the Washington Huskies.