By Mark Giannotto; WASHINGTON POST 

This year’s National Signing Day had come and gone last week, and Coolidge senior Jamar Bolden began to prepare for prep school upon graduating this spring from the Northwest Washington school. He wanted to play college football, but nobody seemed interested in offering him a scholarship yet.

Until, that is, Bolden picked up his phone after basketball practice one day last week and heard a Marshall assistant coach on the other end. The Thundering Herd had a late scholarship that opened up and, at the behest of longtime H.D. Woodson assistant Wayne Johnson, elected to take a closer look at Bolden’s game film. 

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