- Jalen Hurd's stats through four games: 1,245 yards and 17 touchdowns on 83 carries.
- Per MarQuez North's father, 2 official visits will be Ohio State and Tennessee.
- Tyquan Lewis will make his choice next Thursday (9/20) at 4 pm at his high school
2014 Ohio Athlete Likes Buckeyes (the ozone)
Galion, Ohio has itself a football player in young Dareian Watkins.
At 6-2, 192 pounds, Watkins has garnered attention from a number of college programs for the class of 2014. The only Big Ten schools to offer so far have been Illinois and Northwestern, but more are likely to come for the wideout/running back out of Ohio.
Will Ohio State be one of them? He is listed as an Athlete, but can play either quarterback or wide receiver at the high school level. He probably won’t play quarterback at the next level, unless he ends up somewhere like Georgia Tech.
Illinois is the leader and has offered early, but Watkins grew up rooting for Ohio State. He recently made the trip to Northwestern for the Vanderbilt game. The Wildcats made an offer for him to play QB, so if Ohio State wants in on this top Ohio prospect, they better offer soon.
Urban Meyer loves recruiting high school quarterbacks to play all over the field and Watkins is one of those guys. He recently took time to answer questions from The-Ozone.
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Dravon Henry can lean on All-Pro cousin 
(espn insider)
ALIQUIPPA, Pa. -- When Dravon Henry has a question about football, he has a few NFL options to turn to.
The 2014 Aliquippa (Pa.) running back can look to Chad Askew, who spent time with the Jets in the 1990s. He can ask Charles Fisher, a second-round pick in the 1999 draft by the Bengals. Or he can turn to his $46 million cousin and one of football’s best players.
All-everything cornerback Darrelle Revis, a former Quip himself, is Henry’s cousin.
Basically saying he is interested and wants to visit, also an offer is being reported in this article
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Robert Foster gets UA Game invite (espn)
MONACA, Pa. -- Sometimes exceptions to the rule can be made. Robert Foster is as soft spoken and unassuming as the quaint town of Monaca, Pa., where he lives.
Located just a few miles off the shores of the Ohio River, Monaca is one of those postcard towns that can't be painted. To see it for yourself is the only way to fully understand its charm. That's Robert Foster.
As Central Valley athletic director Sam Cercone put it, "Robert is that quiet kid who is oblivious about how special he is. He knows he's got talent, but doesn't know how big a deal he really is."
But when the Warriors wide receiver picked up his jersey on Wednesday as part of the American Family Insurance Selection Tour for the 2013 Under Armour All-America Game, Foster was willing to bend the rules a bit.
Normally, the 6-foot-3, 190-pound Foster is the guy who sits in the background before exploding on the field at game time. But on Wednesday, he let loose just a bit -- well, as loose as the down-to-earth Foster can.
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Dorian Johnson could visit Pitt Saturday (espn insider)
ESPN 150 offensive tackle Dorian Johnson (Belle Vernon, Pa./Belle Vernon) has a final three, and two of those will play this weekend.
Pittsburgh and Virginia Tech will meet at Heinz Field on Saturday, and Johnson lives less than an hour from Pittsburgh.
Johnson, a Penn State decommit and No. 27 in the ESPN 150, wrote in a text he "might go but we have film and lifting early [Saturday] morning so i might not be able to."
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updated and final
Ok this is insane: Jalen Hurd's stats through four games: 1,245 yards and 17 touchdowns on 83 carries.
Alot of HS studs headed towards bigtime D1 programs have huge and incredible stat lines while in high school, but this might be the most impressive one I have ever seen.
Thanks Gene always appreciate the daily updates!
word is Robert Foster is going to sign with Pitt. If Dorian Johnson signs with Pitt, too...damn, wtf
I hope Pitt continues to do horrible this year.
"You win with people." - Woody Hayes
Yes, he is expected to be a Panther. I always thought it was a Bama/Pitt battle. Close to home wins sometimes. Tyler Boyd is expected to be a Panther as well. Tyler was favoring PSU before the sanctions.
Well I'd rather have both Dorian and Foster go to Pitt than some big-time school that actually has a chance of competing with us and going to a national championship.
Paul Chryst is a terrific coach, and things are only going to get worse for Penn State, so I expect Pitt will be competing for BCS bowls in a couple years if they can pull in the home state talent.
What has Paul Chryst done to get the label of a "terrific coach"? I understand he can develop an OL, but what has he shown otherwise? Because in two games, he's done horrible, horrible things with mediocre talent.
Maybe he should have qualified it with assistant coach, but the Pitt program has been in a lot of turmoil the last 3 years. I do expect that if he can pull in that type of talent and with PSU down, Pitt will be back to national prominence (a place they haven't been since well, since I have been alive).
the only thing i have against pitt is that it is mark mays alma mater. im not here to just bash on mark may, ok maybe i am, hes the worst!
mark may wins douchebag of the year... again
With PSU being down, it presents an open door for OSU to go in and recruit big time talent. Just because PSU is down doesn't mean that Pitt should come up. They still have to compete with other B1G teams for the talent. PSU will start pulling talent again in about 2 years. I think a lot of kids are going to like O'Brien because of his perseverence through all of this.
@ BuckI8 - Exactly, mediocre talent that he had nothing to do with. Pitt has had MAJOR coaching issues over the last several years, with each having a vastly different offensive approach. While I agree it's too soon to call him a great coach, he at least deserves the benefit of the doubt for a year or two.
Neither recruit has hinted at a possible commitment either way, I say let this one play out
I don't want to hear such things about robert foster and how quiet and "down to earth" he is. He did something, we don't know what, to have a falling out with OSU and Urban. He can't be that good of a guy. Maybe now that PSU is in shambles, he's coming back to reality and understands how special it is to receive an offer from the Buckeyes.
"Get him a body bag, Yeah!"
That jalen hurd stat line looks like a video game. I wonder what our chances are of nabbing him up possibly?
I read a tweet yesterday that said he grew up a UT and UF fan. If UT snags Derrick Henry or Derrick Green I could see that turning him away from UT. I don't think he makes the long trip to UF, so OSU is only about 5 hours away from his hometown. A lot depends on how we finish the year also.
@Cincy, I agree completely. Not to say anyone's prognostications are wrong, just that he's done literally nothing to prove himself in the head coaching arena thus far.
Didn't Hurd have us #2 behind Bama?
Sorry Urban, Woody is still my favorite
@Triv ... Yes, last I heard, unless something has changed.
I haven't heard a recent ranking from Hurd, but Georgia and Notre Dame offered him last week, so that could change things. I imagine though with the numbers he's putting up, he's bound to keep getting more and more offers from top schools.