Raw CEO Jose Duasso is no stranger to talent. His 7on7 teams have included five stars like Ellis Robinson and Desmond Ricks and future All-Americans like Kam Kinchens. But he's emphatic that this year’s team, which includes 15 blue-chip players and four Top 100 players, is his most talented ever. Two of his players (Cortez Mills and Amari Wallace) just received Crystal Balls to Miami, and the Canes are heavily pursuing several more. He sat down with the CanesInSight Daily Podcast to discuss the Miami targets on his roster:
On Homestead WR Cortez Mills: Mr. Big Playmaker. When you need a big play, you go to Cortez. He's going to catch it one handed. He's going to fade with you two hands. He has one of the most impressive catch radiuses I've been around. He has deceptive speed. I really compare his game to Allen Robinson of the Jacksonville Jaguars. Allen's maybe a little bit bigger than him. Cortez will grow into his frame, but he wears size 3XL gloves. He's got big mitts.
He can go up and grab the ball. You saw that at Under Armour. Guy was on his coverage, and Cortez just went on his head. And this was a deep ball. This wasn't a fade route. You have a guy that's able to make contested catches at any level of the field.
On Mills’s concussion at this week’s Battle New Orleans tournament: Cortez is going to put his body on the line. If you watch the state championship game versus St. Thomas Aquinas, he was having a little bit of a quiet game. Then he broke loose down the seam with a safety right on his tail and he just dove. You can separate a shoulder like that. You can get a concussion easily.
He's going to put it on the line for his team to win, and that's one of the best traits that he can have. Balls coming his way. He's going to do anything to catch that ball. And he’s going to make sure that ball is not going to get intercepted either.
On Central DB Amari Wallace: Very freaky. Instinctual, very similar to Kam [Kinchens] on the field. He’s a puppy child off the field, but in a good way. Heart of gold. Makes you laugh, loves to talk, incredible kid. On the field, he's going to knock your **** loose. Go back to the Chaminade game. He hit CJ Bailey so hard. He's a strong safety, he could play the free. He's a little short, but I would say he's the same frame as Kam coming out of high school.
He’s kind of that jack of all trades. We use him in the nickel and at safety. Miami is going to use him like a Swiss Army knife.
On Tampa Tech WR Dallas Wilson: He's absolutely disgusting. He's so good and so raw. It's very scary. He's got one of the highest ceilings in the country. He's 6’4 and built like he could step into a college program right now. And I don't think he lives in the weight room.
He can run by you. He's going to go over you. He's going to go underneath you. He knows how to use his body, his big frame, to block off that corner right behind him on slant routes. But he's also a 50-50 specialist. Dallas is a potential top 10 pick if everything works out the way it should.
On Booker T CB Ben Hanks: Just calm, cool, collected. Very smooth, wipes out his side of the field. We really don't gotta worry about anything that's getting thrown his way. If someone's scoring on him, it's just some broken coverage. But that's 7on7. We don't practice. But when Ben was on his A-game this weekend, he didn't allow any catches thrown his way. He's the total package.
On Jacksonville (Mandarin) safety Hylton “Drake” Stubbs: He's up there as the best safety in the country for me. Ball hawk (6 INTs and 3 FRs as a junior). Where the ball is, he's at. He’s kind of similar to Kam, just a bigger body. He made a play this weekend at Battle New Orleans where I had a deja vu moment. We won that tournament in 2020 with Kam’s group. Kam went crazy with six interceptions. And I remember Kam breaking on a ball when he was in robber coverage. Watching Drake break on the ball, I got chills because I've seen that before.
On Bryce Fitzgerald, who he coached last season: Perfect free safety. Elite speed. No one's going to take you deep. Rangy. Instinctual. This safety class is loaded, just like receiver. Bryce could play receiver. He shows those ball skills. It's hard to take that team deep if you have Bryce playing center field.
On Central WR Naeshaun Montgomery (who moved down from Rhode Island and recently transferred to Central from Cardinal Newman in Palm Beach): At Newman, the ability to get him the ball wasn't there. That's why his film wasn't what people thought. That's why he's dropped in some of the rankings. That's why he made the move to a big power program (Central).
You put the ball up in Nae’s vicinity, he's going to float and get it. That’s the word to describe to him when he jumps. He floats. He has hang time. And he knows how to control his body.
On 2026 Georgia WR Aaron Gregory, the #15 ranked player in the class: Aaron's really trusted the process with us. He's a very, very hardworking kid, comes from a great family. Moved from Augusta to Atlanta to play some better competition, dominated. Comes down, plays with us, had some big touchdowns on day two for us. We call him the leader of the new school for us because our team's all 2025 receivers. He's really the only '26 receiver we have on our team. He’s just an awesome kid to be around, great teammate.
He's a rotating starter for us. Some games he starts. Sometimes he's our sixth man. Manu Ginobili is a Hall of Famer as a sixth man. I have to tip my hat off to Aaron because he could easily have gone and jumped to another team. But he's waiting his turn. He waits for his number to get called. He'll be starting with us this weekend. He's definitely going to put on a clinic in Atlanta.
On Central WR Kha’leal Sterling: Yeah, that's Zay Flowers. That’s the guy who leaves South Florida, ends up at a smaller program and becomes a draft pick and then us Canes fans are like “How the **** did we let this guy leave?” He’s not the tallest guy, but he's built like a decent-sized high school running back. Very explosive. I would say he's a 4.4 guy.
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