With a little more than two weeks left until the recruiting war is over, let's take a look and evaluate the final targets.
TE Sam Grant
http://youtu.be/JGfvsTwFocQ
Here is my take on Grant. After evaluating the tight ends in Ohio, I had Grant at about third or fourth in the state. Now Michigan already has a commitment from Cincinatti's A.J. Williams ( who is the best blocking TE in Ohio) but he is 6'6" 270 LBS and played LT his senior season and will transition to OL at Michigan. Grant is another excellent blocking TE but he also is a huge target at 6'5" and has good hands. Grant isn't explosive by any means and needs work with getting off the ball faster and with more urgency. I believe he is an important pickup because of the fact that they need depth and Funchess is more of a WR and Williams an OL.
OL Josh Garnett
http://youtu.be/izUPI7j16wE
Garnett is big, athletic and intelligent. Is he a five star? Who knows. My dirty on the star ranking is if you have three of them, your capable of being a great player. Garnett's offense in high school put him in a position where he had to play in space and he plays well. He does a great job of using his leverage and his initial punch off the line is very strong and he gets his man off balance, he then owns him. His ability to get out to the next level and tie up LB's is excellent as well. His competition in these highlights are questionable but his talent is not. He has the athletic ability to play tackle but he is a guard at the next level. He and Kalis at left and right guard in the future would be a beautiful thing my friends.
OL Jordan Diamond
http://youtu.be/oUrgoQH_PZM
Diamond is another huge body with excellent strength. He is a little more raw than Garnett and I believe he is an OG at the next level. Diamond seems to go hard for a few seconds and then pull up a bit, with that said he would be an excellent pickup and an adequate run blocker. He and Garnett are both interior guys but if I had a choice it would be Garnett. Diamond will probably wait until the last week to announce and his list of choices are top programs.
OL Alex Kozan http://youtu.be/1B04WeOydu4
This is a perfect example of questioning the star ratings. This film is a little shaky and doesn't point Kozan out, he is the LT NO. 75. Now after watching 5 star Garnett and Diamond I am suppose to believe that Kozan is 2 stars under both those guys? Listen folks, Diamond is 6'6" 290 lbs, Garnett is 6'5" 275 lbs and Kozan is 6'4" 290 lbs. Somebody try to prove to me that Kozan isn't just as good if not better than both the other guys. Watch him, He plays til the whistle blows and a majority of the time he has to get up off his opponent who he has just drove into the ground. He is just as athletic as the other two, evidence is him 40 yards down field in front of the RB on screens. You want my opinion? He looks to play harder and with more tenacity than the other two and is quicker off the ball as well. Kozan clearly is not a downgrade and the fact that he is not as highly touted and only a three star leads to me to believe that there is no sense of entitlement and a reason to work harder. His 6'4" 290 lb frame screams OG as well.
DB Armani Reeves
http://youtu.be/8fIlTHcYrgg
Reeves is a prototypical CB, 5'10" 180 lbs and 4.4 speed. On film he has all the CB skills, speed , quickness, agility and cover skills. Throw in some good tackling and the fact that he is physical and excels in press coverage, he has all the capabilities to be a good to great college corner. I also like the way he plays zone coverage, he seems to do an excellent job of reading the QB's eyes and anticipating his decisions. It's difficult to predict what an excellent high school corner will do at the next level, it's the toughest position on the field to play because of the disadvantages ( running backwards, not knowing what routes the WR will take, only five yards of contact ). Reeves has the tools and he is a special teams dynamo also.
DB Yuri Wright
sorry, can't find wrights clips. The jury is still out on wright as a corner because his size screams S, 6'2" roughly 200lbs. I hear he is a little tight in the hips and for an all-American his offer sheet seems a bit light.
For Ohio fans there seems to be some interesting developments. Urban Meyer has recently flipped Ohio OL Taylor Decker from Notre Dame. Decker is a 6'8" 280 LB LT from Vandalia, I actually had him as my second ranked LT in Ohio behind Kyle Dodson. The bad news is there are only two Prototype LT's in Ohio, it's those two. That may also keep Dodson from flipping from Wisconsin to Ohio because they both play the same position. Since Meyer has been on the recruiting trail he has received only one commitment that wasn't committed elsewhere, Ricquan Southward, a WR from FLA. Here is Meyers work in a nutshell.
Southward
Flipped Spence and Schutt from PSU.
Flipped Pittman from MSU
Flipped Decker from ND.
Now he has been working on Dodson who is verballed to Wisconsin but the Decker commitment could hurt that. He is trying to get OL Jordan Diamond as well. Since Meyer has been at Ohio QB Taylor Graham and DB Jeremy Cash have transferred. Yesterday DB's Dominic Clarke and highly touted recruit Derjuan Grambell have been released. Meyer loosens up a couple schollies there to work on his OL. There are some questions about how many schollies ohio had , sources say they have only 20, Is he planning on over signing guys? That is an SEC move I believe, I could be wrong, they may have more.
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