Carson High's Chris Fields Iii Is Ready To Follow Plan For Success

First successful a bid of stories profiling apical precocious schoolhouse shot players by position. Today, Chris Fields III, Carson quarterback.

If you want to motivate backmost Chris Fields III, uncertainty his skills. He’ll respond for illustration an underdog boxer delivering a knockout punch. Just erstwhile you slightest expect him to measurement forward, he’ll find a measurement to produce.

Last play for Carson High, he was 1 of nan champion multidimensional quarterbacks successful nan Southland, passing for 2,031 yards and 29 touchdowns while rushing for 958 yards and 13 touchdowns successful starring nan Colts to nan City Section Open Division championship.

He’s 6 feet 1, which immoderate see a roadblock to playing astatine nan highest level, but it’s Fields’ intangibles that abstracted him.

He has spent astir of nan summertime successful nan weight room, making himself a 205-pound, Marvel-like characteristic tin of ace strength.

“Goals don’t get accomplished skipping days,” he said of his training routine.

Every morning, he engages successful heavy stretching exercises. At night, location are crystal baths. Taking attraction of his assemblage for a play that could scope 14 games is 1 of his astir important priorities.

He trusts his religion and his mother, who has raised him arsenic a azygous parent. She’s truthful heavy progressive successful his shot activities that she watches and breaks down movie pinch him and comes to practices to support him.

“She could put connected enarthrosis pads and a helmet and tear up a defense immoderate day,” Fields said. “I’ve been done everything pinch mom.”

He remembers nan days erstwhile nan family struggled to salary for nutrient and a spot to stay.

“We came from nan bottom,” Fields said. “We were heavy impoverished. If my mom has obscurity to slumber and she’s having to activity aggregate jobs while going to schoolhouse to supply for maine and my sister, I should beryllium capable to salary her backmost by doing well.”

So immoderate anyone thinks, Fields’ thrust is to make his mom proud, whether it’s successful nan classroom, connected nan section aliases by being respectful to strangers.

“If you’re astatine our games, you’re going to perceive her successful nan crowd,” Fields said.

One of Fields’ strengths is to improvise. He understands really to make split-second decisions, and galore impact whether to enactment successful nan pouch aliases return disconnected and tally pinch his speed.

“When I find that I’m going to run, it usually comes from pre-snap publication knowing wherever my guys are,” he said. “If I consciousness nan rush, I effort to bent successful there, effort to widen nan play but will do immoderate is needed. I consciousness my legs are conscionable arsenic valuable arsenic my arm.”

And his limb is beautiful bully — like, throwing a spiral 67 yards good.

He’s reliable pinch nan benignant of activity skills that animate teammates to rally astir him.

It’s different play of value quarterbacks pinch nan people of 2029 peculiarly beardown aft terrific freshman seasons by specified players arsenic Thaddeus Breaux of L.A. Hamilton, Ford Green of Westlake, Marcus Washington of Cajon, Jonah Tuaniga of Long Beach Millikan and Steven Moore of La Sierra. Add Evan McCalister of Valencia, Ezrah Brown of Orange Lutheran and Jeremy Mellalieu of Chaminade and you person nan makings of a stellar sophomore class.

Fields said he understands nan assemblage recruiting grind. Everyone has their ain thought of what benignant of backmost fits their offense.

“With schools who don’t typically person mobile quarterbacks, I ever encounter, ‘I person to spot nan person,’” he said. “But I’ve ne'er heard, ‘You’re excessively small.’ It’s each a perception. It comes down to whether they for illustration you aliases not. I really want to play astatine nan highest level of assemblage football. If God has different plans, I’m consenting to beryllium humble and locomotion that path.”

During nan summer, Fields committed to Georgetown, wherever academics and athletics tin lead to a awesome future.

Wednesday: Gardena Serra moving backmost AJ McBean.

Quarterbacks to watch

Thaddeus Breaux, L.A. Hamilton, 6-5, 225, So.: Has beingness skills to beryllium nationalist prospect

Brady Edmunds, Huntington Beach, 6-5, 225, Sr.: Ohio State perpetrate has been three-year starter

Chris Fields III, Carson, 6-1, 200, Sr.: City subordinate of nan twelvemonth committed to Georgetown

Jack Hurst, Laguna Beach, 6-4, 190, Sr.: Passed for astir 3,000 yards and 45 touchdowns arsenic a junior

Jaden Jefferson, Corona Centennial, 5-10, 170, Sr.: Hawaii perpetrate is vulnerable passing aliases running

Koa Malau’ulu, St. John Bosco, 6-2, 180, Jr.: Will person blockers needed to person MVP season

Ryan Rakowski, Palos Verdes, 6-0, 180, Sr.: Nevada perpetrate is 1 of nan astir meticulous passers

Russell Sekona, Mater Dei, 6-3, 230, Jr.: Big accommodation moving to Trinity League

Taylor Lee, Oxnard Pacifica, 6-2, 185, Sr.: Record-setting inferior play for Portland State commit

Dane Weber, Chaparral, 6-1, 210, Sr.: California perpetrate passed for 3,645 yards and 41 touchdowns and ran for 14 touchdowns