Tri_State79 wrote: ↑Thu Dec 07, 2023 12:50 pmCarrico for example will never nor could ever be Ryan Shazier or Raekwon McMillian. The LB position in 2023 at the blue blood p5 level isn't asking for any Andy katzemoyers. That's too slow now. Not enough lateral speed. Not enough speed and range all together. CJ Hicks for example or Sonny Styles type is what they are looking for now.Tri_State79 wrote: ↑Thu Dec 07, 2023 12:43 pmYou remember those wild video game style runs Shawn Terry for Ironton had vs Fairland and Jackson? It happened cause he was doing it against slow undersized rural white kids. D5 prep shut him down.Jeaux Burreaux wrote: ↑Thu Dec 07, 2023 11:34 am I don’t want the crap of these kids are “too slow” and all that hoopla. It’s not like they’re completely unknown. They are rated by scouts and clearly if schools are sending scouts to watch them that holds some bearing. Yes Ironton plays some lackluster competition but Reid and Ty had went to camps and proved it there thus got rated to where the scouts believed could be their potential. In the case for Reid it was going to a blue blood national title contender. They get pick of the liter at every single position he was going to have to BATTLE to get on the field. As for Perkins the head coach that recruited ran out of dodge to another team. Who’s to say that fickell may have used him hard to tell.
You really think he's doing that against a kid like Denzel Burke? Lmao
No he's not. And for the same reason why Carrico got jumped by CJ Hicks on the LB depth chart at Ohio State as soon as CJ walked in the door. The seo kids are not athletes. They're just kids who like to play football. There's a big difference.
For reference McMillan was a 5 Star, Shazier a 4 Star. So that’s creme de la creme. No one is saying Carrico will be either of them if they have any sense of reality. However there are PLENTY of guys who weren’t that highly rated that had success in the NFL. Shaquille Leonard went to SC State and lead the league in tackles he had ZERO stars next to his name.