2013 Football Recruits
by djcarv2005 on Feb 11, 2012 9:22 AM EST
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Anyone else already looking forward to next year to see what local recruits want to stay now that we're locking up the area? Still stoked about the Diggs commitment, but I saw a few people wondering what local recruits there were for next year. I did this in a reply to a fanpost a few weeks ago, but now that rivals has their list too, I can combine ESPN, Rivals and 247 rankings and come up with a better list of the local talent in the area that we should be looking for.
Oh, and yes, their are some more studs from Good Counsel that we should be going after, like...now .
Anyways, lets look at the Maryland players first that have received some top 150-250 consideration from all the recruiting sites (I'll include DC, since it is such a smaller pool of players).
Kendall Fuller - consensus 5 star CB from Good Counsel. He came to Diggs announcement last night. The crowd recognized him and started chanting for him too, he loved it. He even tweeted about the love MD fans were showing. In all reality though, we are the underdogs in this race. His entire family are hokies, so we'll have to really impress in order to sway him.
Dorian O'Daniel - 4 star OLB from Good Counsel. The obvious connection here is Good Counsel and the plethora of high quality recruits we just landed in the 2012 class from there. Lets hope that the pipeline stays open and we can snag a few more, especially on defense. ESPNs initial evaluation claims that O'Daniel excels at blitzing and overpowering blockers, I'll take it. Sounds like the perfect fit for a 3-4 OLB.
Derwin Gray - 4/5 star OT from DC (transferred to Friendship) - Gray just transferred from Dunbar to Friendship, where ironically he is now going to play with Jalen Tabor (2014). We just landed Albert Reid (4 star RB) from Friendship, and they produced Eddie Goldman as well. MD should be looking hard to lock up Gray, That would be two high quality OTs in a row (Madaras from Good Counsel this year). Hopefully Locksleys pull on DC recruits can stay strong.
Henry Poggi - 4 star DT from Gilman. Well...we don't have a lot of success with Gilman recruits, but this year we finally landed our first in 20+ years. So lets hope the relationship has thawed and we have a shot at Poggi. At 6'3, 245lb, he looks to be a good fit at the DE spot in the 3-4.
Na'Ty Rodgers - 4 star OT from McDonough. At 6'4, 260lb, Rodgers appears to be a good fit at Guard or RT. I'll take offensive line depth wherever I can take it, especially quality players in-state.
Kirk Garner - 3/4 star Safety from...Good Counsel - Yes, another good counsel defensive player. Garner is a solid safety prospect from Good Counsel, and as I said above, I'd love to keep this pipeline open. I don't think its likely we land all 3 of these players from Good Counsel, but with Locksley anything is possible.
That wraps up MD and DC. So lets look at VA, where Stone Bridge is putting up some good prospects. I've never understood why we don't go for more Stone Bridge players as they're so close to the school.
Ryan Burns - 4/5 star QB from Stone Bridge. Burns is a pro-style offense QB who has a great arm. I'm not sure if Locksley is looking for more zone read or pro-style, but he has said he'll play to his players strengths. MD has always had stronger RBs (and we got two 4 stars last year) so I'm guessing we'll see more pro-style with DOB. Burns would fit well into that system.
Jonathan Allen - 4 star DE from Stone Bridge. Allen is a 6'3, 225lb pass rusher who uses his speed to get to the QB. Allen could add some more bulk to his frame, as he is light for a DE in a 3-4 system, but we could always attempt to stand him up as the Weakside DE/OLB in the 3-4 as well. That'd be a whole lot of OLB depth with this years class and the possibility of Allen and O'Daniel, but you don't deny talent. If we were to land Allen, I'd assume we would be putting our eggs in the basket of Braglio from this year adding the weight needed to play DE in a 3-4.
Christian Hackenburg - 4/5 star QB from Fork Union Military Academy - we had a pipeline of sorts with Fork Union while Ralph was here. Hackenburg has a great arm and accuracy, as his evals state he can make the passes you need to drill in there, or hit the touch passes over top. We took two 3 star QBs this year, but you can't deny top QBs in any class, regardless of depth.
EJ Levenberry Jr - 4 star LB from Woodbridge, VA - Depending on the recruiting service, Levenberry is projected at both ILB and OLB. His early evals show that he has a great tackling ability, which translates well as a 3-4 ILB, who are relied on to stop the run while the DL clogs up the OL.
Donta WIlkens - 3/4 star DT from Dumphries, VA - Wilkens is only 6'2, but 305lb. WIlkens would project well with his current build into possibly being the NT needed for the 3-4 DL, assuming his height doesn't hold him down on that. The NT needs to be a massive space eater, and Wilkens appears to be that.
There are a lot of fringe 3/4 star prospects down by Richmond and Virginia Beach as well, but that is getting into UVA/ VT territory, but I'm assuming the staff will give that a shot. Or at least send out feelers to see what the initial vibe is from the player.
From Western PA, since Gattuso has his ties out there, one prospect of note is Robert Foster, a 4 star WR. Foster has great hands, and as we all saw last year, our offense could really use a WR that can catch the ball. And from west of Philly, there is 5 star and No. 1 TE Adam Brenneman, who seems elated with MD and has already taken 5-6 unofficial visits. I retweeted him last night, he was happy about the Diggs decision but called it "uncommon." I don't know what to make of that, I hope he doesn't think it is uncommon for a 5 star to come to UMD.
This is by no means a complete list of local recruits either. There are always those that run under the radar until the summer, or I just missed them when glossing over the rankings. Delando Johnson from north of B-more is a local prospect as well, but I don't know much about him so I can't offer any insight on it. So feel free to add more players in the comments section, or any other info you guys know on the local guys. I figured this would tie everyone over until Ben made a complete write up about it.
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good post
im really looking forward to seeing if we can get some of these guys after diggs yesterday. this could be the turnaround for a football program to actually be decent
Good Post
I like our chances with a lot of these guys…but I’m really going we reel in the lineman…if we can stack up that position we will be solid.
If we want to be elite we need to start beating VTech for these locals
2013 is a great class for both O and D lines. The staff should stock pile for both needs.
Linemen
There are a few more linemen in PA and Southern VA. I think Jersey might have one or two as well that were in the fringe 3/4 star range, but I have absolutely no idea if the staff is on them so I didn’t include. The staff should be on every single lineman though that they think fits one of the 3-4 spots on the line. I like that there are a few tackle prospects in this class, because Rodgers could move inside to guard with his height if we land Gray. Gray and Madaras would be the bookends of the next 2-3 years
Thanks for the info
You just got Locksley'd.... get use to it
by Charlotte NC Terp on Feb 11, 2012 9:51 AM EST reply actions
If they win, kids will come
If Maryland can win 6 or 7 games next year, it will really set them up nice for the class of 2013.
I have us down for 8-9 wins....
We should have easily had 7 wins last year (we dropped GT, WV, BC, Clem, & NCST games)…with better defense and a more coherent offense this year, I think 8-9 wins is doable.
You haven't looked at the schedule yet I take it
Keep in mind the Terps have lost over 15 quality players, and may lose DoB. They may win 8 games again but it ain’t going to be this year. The lack of depth is going to be very hard to overcome.
I've seen the schedule...
And I’m sticking to my prediction…and we haven’t lost that many impact players…and we just brought in a very good recruiting class, with players that can contribute right now.
Get rid of the spread
And go back to a pro style offense.
1. It attracts more talent that want to prepare for the NFL
2. Its more effective
Great info, Thanks!
Terp recruiting is on a roll especially with Locks. In a recent article he gave props to other Terp coaches for doing good recruiting work before he came on board which was nice and a touch of class. In addition to the local studs mentioned above there are a few of Locks former players who now want to transfer to Maryland and play for him. Additionally Terps always pick up recruits out of state. With a good production on the field next season Terps will be better than fine. Oh, couple of video’s around of Coach Edsall like Terp TV etc. talking about recruits, nice acknowledgement statement happy and “honored” to have Diggs etc. He is looking to future. He gave green light to showcase Locks and Stewart with media time which was a welcome change from last year. Looks like he is getting out of their way. Point is I like what I’m seeing from Coach Edsall and I hope other Terps are seeing it also. After all Mrs. Diggs did!
do you have any insight on the transfers?
I saw whats his name from the Iowa community college that was a 2009 all met QB, but other than that I heard we weren’t sure if we would take them or not.
Couple recruits...
I don’t know if the school has contacted him, but Nokesville, Va 6’4" 195lb “Athlete” Micheal Parker is a four star on 247 and has 5 schools—Va, Va tech, Boston Col, NC State, and Tennessee— as “warm”. I wonder if it’s too late for Locksley magic?
Also, Bucky Hodges of Salem Va is a 6’6" 215lb. pro style qb who has Maryland in his list of 10 schools, all of them as “cool”, with Stephan in the mix, I wonder if his level of interest would change?
I'd love to have another "Michael Parker"; he definitely has an offer
We’re in on Hodges as well, I believe.
Get Rodgers, Gray, and Allen and I'm happy
Said it before, this class is about the OL and the defense. I’d love to get a guy like Fuller or O’Daniel but those will be battles and not at positions we super need. Allen would be huge for our defense and I’d love to have Brigham, Rodgers, Gray, and Madaras all coming into the OL in a two-year period.
by Ben Broman on Feb 11, 2012 11:23 AM EST reply actions 1 recs
Rodgers is closer to 6'6 than 6'4. Atleast he looks it, he could really be good
by Maryland1206 on Feb 11, 2012 11:46 AM EST up reply actions
even better
the more tackles, the better. you can always move someone inside if they aren’t working out as the tackle.
I'm all about getting Lineman
They are always the key, especially offensive lineman. Even if you have an average QB, with a stellar offensive line it can make him look better than he is.
Depth on the lines
Is the most important part, in my view anyway
Lockley...
go get ’em
RIP Lennie Bias
Turgeon General, Fear the Turgeon, in Turgeon we trust.
Lesean is the "Real Slim Shady"
A few more
Adam Breneman First 5* TE ESPN has had in 3 seasons. Plays for Cedar Hills in PA, which is even more impressive that he has been on campus 5 times already. Has offers from Alabama, OSU, Florida, Auburn, Notre Dame, Penn State and dozens more. AKA he’s VERY VERY good. Also tweeted last night that he found it interesting Diggs committed to Maryland. The tweet gave me a “Maryland is for real” vibe.
Andrew Levrone A WR at Good Counsel played along side Diggs this year. That right there has our foot in the door with him. Auburn just offered him and other SEC schools are starting to take notice. Not on any recruiting site yet but if he’s good enough for Auburn to offer, and for SEC schools than he’s for sure good enough for me
David Williams A RB out of West Philly Catholic. Willaims is ranked #149 on 247 and 192on Rivals making him a solid 4* on both. He has offers from Notre Dame, Auburn MSU, Wisconsin, and South Carolina, and he attended Maryland’s junior day last week. Williams is one of the fastest RB’s in the country as rivals has him a 4.39 40’ but he has apparently been clocked as fat as 4.34.
Marcus Mewberry an ILB out of Gaithesburg. 1st team All-State, yet 2nd team all metro. Go figure. He’s goodm decent size 6’1’’ 210, and was also at Maryland’s junior day.
Levrone
That is who I was thinking of for the Auburn offer. He isn’t listed in ESPNs watch list they put out last week with initial rankings, or on 247 either so I had no idea about him.
Also another WR from Good Counsel that ESPN says we're considering is
Stefon Colbert. Also next to nothing on him so far.
But he has better size than Levrone. 6’4’’ yet only 185 lbs while Levrone is 6’1’’ 185
Ben, is this pretty much what you were going to do?
Should we still expect a post from you?
On another note, I’m not sold on the idea of a possible snowball effect. I do think recruiting will continue to get better, however, and that is all because of Locksley, not because we got one big-time local player. I guess you could argue that it’s just semantics, but I’d rather give the label “program-changer” to Locksley rather than Diggs.
I hope Ben still does a post
I probably missed a few, and Ben could probably offer a little more insight on it. All I did was use my ESPN Insider access and then use what I could find for free on other sites for comparison to get a general feel for the player. I’m sure Ben has a little more insight on each player than I was able to offer
I'll still be posting, either Sunday or Monday
Similar, but a few different opinions, players, and context.
Another one
Micah Kaiser. An OLB from Gilman. He’s an ESPNU watch lister from ESPN, actually has a rivals profile that says we offered, and 247 has him as a 4*’ers. Other than being fro m Gilman, and us offering him, there isn’t much linking us to him, but he’s another LB next year if we happen to strike out on Levenbury, and O’Daniel. Very deep LB class next year in the DMV area.
He is from Gilman
We have little chance. I’m not sure what the history is, but I know that we didn’t land a GIlman player in 20ish years until this year.
Don't count a player out just because they're from Gilman (or from Baltimore).
Yes, the relationship was bad in the past, but there’s no reason why that can’t change, the difference though is unlike DC where Locksley is the man, for the Baltimore area schools Edsall himself has to put the work in (which he has shown to be willing to do).
Give it time, and I think you’ll see more players come around (assuming the team as a whole is successful of course).
by FearTheTurtle on Feb 11, 2012 3:49 PM EST up reply actions
I'll eat my words if it happens
But the lack of Gilman players spans multiple coaching regimes and isn’t the result of Gilman disliking just one coach. I’m sure one of the older guys on here could offer some history on why Gilman players didn’t come to MD for so long, but it had to be something serious.
Way back it was academics
When I was at Maryland many years ago (45) Maryland was easy to get into and private schools like Gilman wanted their grads to go to colleges like Duke, Virginia, and the Ivy League schools. The Ivys lacrosse teams were loaded with Gilman, Boys Latin and St. Paul grads.
Looking at the Rivals rankings for the state of Maryland over the past 10 years there were 10 Gilman grads ranked out of approx. 200 players. Five of those ten were in the past two years. Of the 10 Gilman players 7 had Maryland offers. Of the 7 none went to Maryland however if it wasn’t for the electronic gift from a Maryland assistant coach Victor Abiamari probably would have been a Terp.
Based on the past few years it appears Gilman is sending players everywhere iregardless of the academic reputation. Alabama, Iowa, Pitt.
So I guess the long ago notion of Gilman looking down upon public colleges with less than stellar academic credentials is out the door.
And another
Mike McGlinchey Another ESPN watch-lister. Attends school in Philly. I’ve seen anywhere from 6’7’’ to 6’9’’ OT and rated a 4* on 247. Has been to Maryland for an unofficial already and attended Maryland’s junior day. I’d say he’s realistic and his size is fantastic.
That is alot of local talent
We might not currently have the players to effectively run the 3-4, but the staff will definitely get its opportunity to add guys for the scheme with this class.
My opinion: the most important aspect of the game of football is getting pressure on the quarterback. So you obviously need a good front 7, particularly along the line. Thus, add a few 4 stars (maybe even a 5) in those front 7, and i am happy. Based on this list, plenty of possibility for that… O’Daniel, Poggi, Allen, Levenberry Jr., Wilkens… bring it on
There is more that I missed too
There are a ton of LBs in this class. I feel like we’re going to miss out on a lot of the LBers though since we signed so many this year, but we will also lose a few to attrition I’m sure. We were thin this year at LB with a ton of freshman playing, so this years class definitely helps with depth.
My prediction is we’ll lose at least 1-2 LBs from a transfer because they won’t like being in the 3-4. It’ll either be a DE who gets stood up as a OLB, or a OLB who gets put as the DE.
Back to the recruiting…keep it up with the additions of names I missed. I think the most important aspects of this class are that we find the correct lineman for the 3-4 and we get some offensive line depth. We started off great with getting Madaras and Brigham this year, but we need to continue to land high 3 star and higher talent on the line, preferably 4 stars or higher.
TRUE 22!!
I will be posting my TRUE 22 , which is the best 22 players from the DMV. But what I will give you is ….KYLE LEVERE from Calvert Hall right now locked into Mich. State. UMD better get on the ball!!almost 6-3 180
Will Fuller
Another Philly kid who visited during the Unc game. Kid just goes out and makes plays. Great combination of speed, hands, vision, and skill with Diggs’ size.
In case anyone still had a doubt how much of an asshole Craig James is, and how he screwed Mike Leach, check out the new reporting on http://www.sportsbybrooks.com/
INSIDER INFO........
Who takes over for Albert Reid at RB at Friendship??
give up …Joe Hadens little brother Jonathan Haden rb from Carroll.He is leaving with a few other high profile players to boot!!
is he any good?
the name might bring him a ways
RIP Lennie Bias
Turgeon General, Fear the Turgeon, in Turgeon we trust.
Lesean is the "Real Slim Shady"
OH YES!!
at least 190 and 5-9 . great feet and hands .he will be on par with joe athletically wise . he’ll be a 4.4 guy maybe 4.3 he is on the cover 1 squad also
by SWAGGERTERP on Feb 12, 2012 12:17 PM EST up reply actions
I've heard the early returns are that he'll be one of the area's best in 2014
Looks like ‘14 is gonna have almost as much talent as ’12 did – Tabor, Haden, Damian Prince, the Ulmer kid at St. John’s, Mustipher and the younger Madaras at GC, that wide receiver from Friendship, and Crest at Dunbar (Baltimore) looks like a superstar too. That might be the real money year for us.
2013 has some jewels too
Too bad that we probably won’t go hard for O’Daniels since we just took 6-8 LBs this year, 5 of which are OLBs
Great info on this post
Betcha RE is salivating with his staff at all the talent just from this area. We’re paying big bucks for great recruiting. Let ‘em go to work.
Personally, my favorite name is Na’Ty Rogers. Just sounds like all ACC to me.
This is what we should of been doing the past 10 years
The complete lack of focus on this area over the past 10 years makes you sick when you look at all the talent that left the area
Keep it going
we should get Madaras’ brother in the fold too. He’s a guard in the class of 2013 (and another GC kid, which can’t hurt).
haha, 2014
was bout to say didn’t show up on my 247 search. He’s got some weight for only being 6’2 that’s for sure. 6’2 is a little short for a guard though, might make the move to center or the other side of the ball depending if he grows or not.
Yannick Ngakoue
Another DE/OLB hybrid that would fit good in the 3-4. He decided to transfer from Carroll to FCA. Seems to be alot of local talent is transfering into FCA for academic reasons, exposure, competition, and better coaching. Like GC we need to get intrenched into that program ASAP, thanks to Locks being Locks and Edsall establishing a good relationship with AAR this could happen sooner than later.
So Good Counsel's quarterback is a 2013 kid, Brendan Marshall
But everyone calls him “Whitey” or “Whites.” And he looks like Mike Glennon.
I don’t know what to make of this. I’d love to have a quarterback named “Whites,” though.
dude is BIG
RIP Lennie Bias
Turgeon General, Fear the Turgeon, in Turgeon we trust.
Lesean is the "Real Slim Shady"
Incredibly bored so here is a few more guys
William Fuller-Is ANOTHER Philly guy(Why not get a pipeline there?). A 6’1’’ WR is a 3* on 247 and not ranked on Rivals or ESPN. Interestingly enough we haven’t offered him yet but he was at our Junior Day last week so there is preliminary interest. A possession receiver in nature as he’s around the 4.65 40 range.
Alex Alzalone-He is an interesting, and underrated OLB out of Wyoming. Yes Wyoming, but he must like the Terps enough to go travel across the country to Maryland’s junior day. Not rated on ESPN, Rivals, or 247, yet he has offers from Florida, MSU, Virignia, Temple, Rutgers, and BC. Also OSU is involved.
Also this http://weblogs.dailypress.com/sports/college/accblog/2011/07/top_gun_participant_kendall_fu.html
TWO CORRECTION
Last name is spelled A*n*zalone and he’s actually out of Wyomissing, Pennsylvania. Not Wyoming the state. Confusing.
Good finds
On Alex though, I think if the staff wants to go after another OLB in 2013 they’ll stay local. There is a ton of talent in the area at OLB in 2013, which sucks for us because we went hardcore on it this year. A few of the recruits played multiple positions though, so I don’t know their willingness to move elsewhere to allow for superior talent to come in.
Couple of Baltimore names....
Some other Baltimore guys to be on the lookout for -
Shane Cockerille – QB from Gilman – tough kid with good size (6-2, 205), can throw well but also has great wheels; already has a Terps offer
Micah Kiser – LB from Gilman – pretty sure he was all-state
Marvin Gross – DE from Dunbar
One thing to note is that WV has offered a lot of the Baltimore guys early; withTavon Austin’s success they are making strong inroads that we need to bring to an end.
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