There is just over a week left until the first game. Have you done your inferno spa day to get ready for the humidity against Georgia Southern? Today, even though there are 9 days left, we are highlighting #17 on the roster, which is Linebacker Clay Martineau. Confused? Good.
#17, Clay Martineau, True Freshman, Linebacker
Stats
Height: 6′3″
Weight: 220 lbs
High school: Oregon City HS, Oregon City (OR)
How’d he get to The Blue™?
Clay was part of a concentrated effort to recruit Oregon and was the 2nd best player in the state in his class and the 34th-best linebacker in the country. He committed to Boise State all the way back in June after mulling offers from Washington, Washington State, BYU, Nevada and Colorado State. After a strong senior season, Martineau was bumped to a four-star on 247 before enrolling with the Broncos in January.
Nickname
“The Clay Comet”
For the way he flies around the field making tackles.
Look-alike
Looks like a young Jesse Eisenberg to me.
Career Highlights
In his high school senior season, Martineau totaled 44 tackles (32 solo, 12 assisted) with 8.5 tackles for loss, 2.0 sacks, four pass break-ups, one interception, one fumble recovery, and one blocked field goal in eight games. That was just on defense. For his offense stats, he caught 29 passes for 471 yards and five touchdowns.
His high school highlights can be viewed here.
2024 Prospectus
The linebacker rotation seems pretty set at the moment. Andrew Simpson and Marco Notarainni seem locked in as the starters. Jake Ripp looks primed to man that #3 LB spot that both Simpson and Notarainni excelled in the past two seasons. Chase Martin had a solid debut last season and should be LB4 in 2024, with a heavy dose of special teams.
It will be hard for a true freshman to crack the two-deep, but Martineau has been getting rave reviews thus far in fall camp. He will definitely get the allotted four games to preserve his redshirt, but it’s just as likely he will play more. It would not at all be a surprise to see Clay in the Chase Martin role of becoming a force on special teams and getting some linebacker reps as the season goes on.
Is he on Twitter?
Mostly lots of QTs and RTs, but yes
Completely made up fact
Oregon is known as the Beaver State, and back in grade school, Clay was obsessed with home-state animals. He got a pet beaver for his 9th birthday, and they spent a summer building a damn together. Unfortunately, all the pictures were lost in a flood when the damn broke one day.
I’d like to see a list of all the 4* and 5* guys on our team. There are several like this guy who got the star late. Jeanty was actually one of them. I’m guessing we have like 6-8 of them total.
Did it myself. Mainly from 247…
Nelson: Former 5*, 4* when we recruited
Marshall: Former 5*, 4* for us
Martineau: 4* (late)
Jeanty: 4* (late)
Gums: 4*
Dubar: 4*
Virgin-Morgan: 4*
4* guys who transfered away from BSU:
Deshawn Misa,Semaj Vener, Casey Kline, Keegan Duncan