Miami safety commit Dylan Day looking for bigtime senior season, “has a skillset that you just can’t teach”

After committing to Miami this spring, the expectations for Baton Rouge (La.) Southern University Lab School 2024 three-star safety Dylan Day couldn’t be higher heading into his senior season.

Day, the No. 22 Louisiana prospect in the On3 Industry Ranking, helped his team win a state championship in 2021 as a sophomore and emerged into the recruit who eventually became a Miami prospect as a junior in 2022. This fall, head coach Darrell Asberry expects Day to live up to the hype.

“The expectations are very high,” Asberry said. “He understands the pedigree of what it’s going to take to lead the defensive side of the ball back to the championship. We played a scrimmage (last week), and he showed why he’s a Division I football player. He was all over the field with a couple of interceptions, so we’re pleased with where we are with him right now.”

Southern Lab has produced Division I talent in the past, and Asberry said Day’s opportunity to watch other school alumni develop helped him understand what it takes to play at the Power Five level. His work ethic, coupled with an incredible natural skillset, turned him into a prospect capable of dominating his competition.

“He’s a different kid, but he has a skillset that you just can’t teach,” Asberry said. “He’s just a natural. They can polish it up, but he has a tremendous skillset.”

Day has added weight since his sophomore year (even though he is listed at 5-foot-11 and 165 pounds) and has added to his already remarkable track speed. He ran a 11.33-second 100M dash at a meet this March and ran a 21.63 200M at the LHSAA State Outdoor Championships, where he recorded a personal best. But Asberry has noticed the greatest improvement in Day’s film study, learning how to study and understand opponents’ tendencies and formations as opposed to simply observing game tape.

And while Asberry obviously wants to see him continue to progress physically, he wants to see Day become more cerebral as well. And, perhaps most important, enjoy his final semester of high school before enrolling at Miami in January.

“When you sit back and process everything for him as a coach, you just want to see him continue to grow with his football knowledge and just continue to learn, ask the tough questions,” Asberry said. “He’s a very coachable kid, so it’s hard for me to say he’ll sit back and won’t ask questions, because he does. I want him to continue to enjoy his last semester of school. I tell him all the time, do it while you can still do it, because you’ll never walk this way again (as a high school athlete committed to Miami). He’s living a dream now.”

CaneSport’s Take

Miami recruited Day as a nickelback, and while he’s still a raw talent, the Hurricanes have expressed to him confidence in their developmental capabilities and the future they see for him in Coral Gables. Miami defensive coordinator Lance Guidry first recruited Day at Marshall and then briefly during his quick stay at Tulane, and Day was one of the first prospects Guidry offered after he was hired at Miami.

Bringing Day onto the team is as much a vote of confidence in Guidry as it is in Day, indicating head coach Mario Cristobal has full faith in the first-year defensive coordinator to bring in his favorite prospects on his side of the ball.

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