I'll admit that I didn't see Turner's high school highlight reel, so I cannot make a fair comparison having only seen him against collegiate competition. What I DO know is that AT still looks VERY small to me when he's on the field, and this Nate Davis kid looks like a rock at about 6'3 225-230.Germainfitch1 wrote: Would I turn him away, no. Do I think there is anyone out there we could get who could move Anthony Turner to another position. Not likely.
What made me so impressed was his arm strength and playmaking ability. The guy has an absolute cannon. There was a clip of him throwing off his back foot a pass 45 yards downfield to a guy on a post route. There were also many clips of him throwing across his body and hitting guys. He'd roll to the right and throw a dart to a guy on the other side of the left hash mark. Seeing those plays it's scary that they could easily get picked against a D1A defense, nobody should make those throws, but the fact that he can make them in HS makes it pretty clear he's got the arm strength he needs. He also threw a LOT of passes on the run in these films, and it seems to be pretty common in our offense for the QB to roll and throw towards the sideline.
Hard to tell from highlight videos, but the scouts also list his intangibles & leadership as a plus, always good for a QB.
Scout says, "could be the most talented signal-caller in the Midwest." Apparently the only reason why he hasn't garnered a lot more interest is because he wanted to play college hoops instead of (or as well as) football. He has since decided to stick solely with football, but many of the big time programs are already looking elsewhere.
I'm not saying we NEED to get another QB this year, because we've already got Sheehan. However, from all accounts this kid is clearly a better prospect than Sheehand, and he would be the crown jewel of our recruiting class. Plus you can never have too many QB prospects waiting in the wings, because you just don't know when one of your top name guys just doesn't pan out.
Scout.com also has a few other 2 and 3 star type players popping up on our list. A lot of them are guys with offers from us, but list their favorites as OSU, UM, ND, and Pitt or something like that. Unfortunately for them, they don't have offers from any of those schools. Seems like we're in on a number of kids who have offers from Cincy, BG, Toledo, and Miami. If we can pull our fair share out of those kids I think we could end up with one of the better classes in the MAC.
From the looks of it Nate Davis, if he ends up in the MAC, could be the best recruit the conference gets this year. EMU is on a guy who's ranked higher (the QB from Glenville), but he's got offers from MSU, Iowa, etc, I don't see him ending up at Eastern, who is the only MAC team on his list.
We need his size and speed at Lb. I though he was still in the DE rotation.