The Opening Finals 2016: Sights, sounds, sprints of Day One

Video: Highlights of day one at The Opening finals
Action of 166 of the nation's top athletes participating in the Nike Football Ratings Championship.

BEAVERTON, Ore. — Get invited to The Opening finals and your status as a high school football player rises immeasurably.

Go to The Opening finals and win the Nike Football Ratings Championship and welcome to celebrity.

For the next two days at Nike Headquarters, incoming La Grange (Texas) senior J.K. Dobbins will wear the unofficial crown as nation's best athlete after recording a hefty score of 146.76 points.

Under threatening skies and cool conditions, the 5-foot-10, 200-pound running back was the last player to leave Bo Jackson Field Friday morning and he did so raising a trophy. It took both hands to lift the monstrous piece of wood and gold.

Dobbins, ranked the No. 3 all-purpose back in the country by the 247Sports Composite and No. 50 recruit overall, was impressive in all facets of the competition.

He breezed to a time of 4.45 seconds in the 40-yard dash, 4.09 in the shuttle, bench pressed the power ball 42 feet and added a vertical leap of 43 feet, 1 inch.

All of it should make Urban Meyer at Ohio State quite happy. Dobbins committed to the Buckeyes on March 6.

Dobbins is used to putting up impressive numbers. He rushed for 2,741 yards and 35 touchdowns last season and 2,230 yards and 37 scores as a sophomore. A three-year player, Dobbins also has 33 career catches for 659 yards and six more scores.

It's quite possible that the runner-up in the competition will join Dobbins at Ohio State.

Another Texas native, Jeffrey Okudah of South Grand Prairie (Texas), ranked the nation's top safety, recorded an overall score of 142.56. The 6-2, 200-pounder, ranked the top safety in the country and No. 5 recruit overall, ran the 40 in 4.49, the shuttle in 4.03, tossed the power ball 41-6 and added a vertical jump of 41-6.

Rounding out the top 5:

3. RB Cam Akers, Clinton (Clinton, Miss.), uncommitted
140.13: 40 (4.41), shuttle (4.18), power ball (41-0) and vertical jump (38-6).

4. S Devon Hunter, Indian River (Chesapeake, Va.), uncommitted
139.55: 40 (4.42), shuttle (3.95), power ball (38-5) and vertical jump (38-9).

5. RB Darrian Felix, Fort Myers (Fla.), uncommitted
138.38: 40 (4.48), shuttle (3.96), vertical jump (44-0).

Star sightings: Three of the hottest names of the NFL were helping out the kids Friday — reigning NFL Rookie of the Year and Rams running back Todd Gurley, the 2016 top NFL Draft pick and Rams quarterback Jared Goff and the NFL's No. 3 pick Ezekiel Elliott.

Fast times: Khalan Laborn, the nation's fifth-ranked running back from Bishop Sullivan Catholic (Virginia Beach, Va.), decided to move up his Saturday commitment to Friday by driving up (on the passenger's side) in a Lamborghini.

The hood of the luxury sports car was a symbol of a seminole. His obvious pick: Florida State.

Flashy.

Big boys, big results: The nation's top two recruits on the 247Sports recruiting board were very impressive in Friday one-on-ones, according to 247Sports Director of Scouting Barton Simmons.

Antioch (Calif.) running back Najee Harris, ranked No. 1, and IMG Academy (Bradenton, Fla.) linebacker Dylan Moses were dazzling in unscheduled drills that went on Friday afternoon.

Others to impress Simmons were five-star offensive lineman Alex Leatherwood, from Booker T. Washington (Pensacola, Fla.), four-star defensive tackle Jay Tufele from Bingham (South Jordan, Utah), and three star running back Chase Hayden from St. George's (Collierville, Tenn.).

Simmons also upped Akers' four-star status to five-star. His performance at the NFR sure didn't hurt. Akers played quarterback last season at Clinton and passed for 2,331 yards and 20 touchdowns, but also rushed 169 times for 1,418 yards and 16 more scores.

He has 22 offers, but Ohio State and Mississippi State appear to have the inside track.

"It's not just the combine stuff that has us enamored with Akers. The kid is an absolute beast in the pads," Simmons wrote. "One running back coach that is recruiting Akers remarked to me that his background playing quarterback makes him that much more of an exciting running back prospect because he's still got so much upside at the position."