Eleven Warriors

this kid was mentioned in GSW's quick bits the other day and this little blurb(by bill greene, scout.com and stark county native) was in the canton repository today. he made stark county's elite eleven(11 best preseason football players in stark county, only sophmore.)

eric glover-williams Mckinley qb-db

strengths-he's probally the best sophmore in ohio....he was at ohio state's camp in june and they had him working as slot receiver. he was AMAZING. no one could cover him. what he plays in high school wpn't be what he plays in college. in high school he is devastating. since they moved him to qb a few weeks ago, they're a totally different team. i've seen him pitch the ball and then get out in front of the rb and deliver a big block. they could put him at center and he's play it. He loves the game.

weaknesses-his size is not ideal. he's 5'8. we will see if he can hold up at qb n db through ten games. we don't know that yet but he is a very tough kid. he looks to hit people and usually the person delivering the hit don't typically get hurt. he isn't going to take alot of hits on o because he knows how to avoid them. he is a major college talent because he is ELECTRIC with the ball in his hands. there is a place for a guy like that with out much size in big time college ball bec of the spread offense.-bill greene, scout.com  

15 is extremely far away but i'm gonna be watching this kid most weekends this yr and i'm really excited to see him and as i said in my op i know some one in his fam (1st cousin) and he's all buckeye if offered which i think is a formality barring major injury

Call him “Instant.”

Whatever a high school football fan could want — instant offense, instant momentum, instant excitement — Eric Glover-Williams will provide, right now.

The sophomore’s monster game led McKinley to a 34-28 win against Walsh Jesuit on Saturday night in front of 8,000 fans at Fawcett Stadium.

It was Glover-Williams’ debut as a starting quarterback. It was Todd Filtz’s debut as McKinley head coach. It was a winner for both when Glover-Williams’ twisting, turning 88-yard touchdown run early in the fourth quarter gave McKinley  the final advantage in a wild game of momentum swings and big plays.

“The seniors wanted this game,” said Glover-Williams, a  160-pound 15-year-old who accounted for close to 400 yards of offense and four touchdowns. “A lot of the seniors remember last year when we played Cardinal Mooney (in the season opener) and we lost that game after halftime. In the locker room, they were focused and ready to go.”

Speaking of instant, Walsh led 14-0 six minutes into the game after Doug Lewis took the opening kickoff back 93 yards and the Warriors marched 76 yards in nine plays for another score.

After scoring 27 unanswered points, McKinley saw a two-touchdown lead evaporate quickly in the second half.

If Filtz was looking for some grit and mental toughness, he got it as the Bulldogs used Glover-Williams’ feet and some timely stops to turn the game back their way.

“The win is great,” Filtz said. “But there were two different occasions when our team could have quit, bagged it up and called it a night.

“But we fought forward, and a bunch of guys were playing for Canton McKinley. That’s the main thing we’ve been preaching from Day 1.”

Glover-Williams rushed for 264 yards and three touchdowns on 28 carries. A running back who was switched to QB shortly before McKinley’s first scrimmage, he also completed 8 of 13 passes for 133 yards, a touchdown and one interception.

Just when it seemed the game was slipping away, Glover-Williams had other thoughts.

“Coach called a quarterback counter, and he called it at the right time,” Glover-Williams said. “The linemen did what they had to do and the hole was there, and I just ran through it.”

It is when he gets through the hole that the excitement starts. Glover-Williams made at least five guys miss as he ran the 88 yards for what proved to be the winning score.

The Bulldogs scored on three of four possessions through the middle portion of the first half. Glover-Williams threw a perfect 34-yard TD strike down the left sideline to Chris Prowell-White late in the first quarter.

Midway through the second, Walsh Jesuit 280-pound defensive lineman Alex Conley had Glover-Williams in his crosshairs for a big loss. A moment later, Glover-Williams was weaving his way through the middle of the field for a 33-yard TD run while Conley wondered what happened.

A spinning, shaking 38-yard run later in the quarter helped set up his 6-yard TD run, giving McKinley a 20-14 lead.

“Eric’s a great player,” said Filtz, “and he’s going to continue to get better