re: Jahkeem Stewart short interview clip

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We can’t miss on this kid.

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I'm genuinely not sure there's been another recruit that was an absolutely-positively-cannot-miss situation like this one. We've had plenty of big-time recruitments throughout the years, but this one is different to me.


Obviously him being an in-state kid ups the stakes a bit, as does the fact that he plays a position of desperate need for us. And beyond just having the 5* label, I think he's truly in that rarified air with the fournettes and the stingleys of the world - the once-or-twice-a-decade type talents. He's really just about a perfect prospect. A true team-changer.


With some kids--even some 5*s--you often have the crazy tools and camp performances but without the consistent in-game dominance, or you have the opposite, or you have a kid whose 5* status derives from being "just" very good in both categories, as opposed to breaking the scale in one or the other.


Stewart, though, is as good as it gets in both columns. In fact, it goes further than that: You can break down your evaluation into as many columns as you want, and he's still as good as it gets in every one of them. This is a kid with top-of-scale size and top-of-scale length, but also top-of-scale explosiveness and top-of-scale movement skills. Also: Not only does he have top-of-scale current size, he has top-of-scale projectability based on his frame. How many sophomore DTs are already carrying 280lbs of strictly good weight? Very few. And among those who are, even fewer have room to comfortably add another 25-30lbs. Add to that the fact that he has the quick-twitch and movement ability of an undersized DL (and even then, an undersized DL who is an elite athlete even for his size), and you're looking at a guy who is exactly what it would look like if you designed a DT prospect in a lab. And the in-game production? It's just as good: tip-top level dominance against the toughest competition the state has to offer.


Any time you make a proclamation like this it's more likely you're wrong than right, but I will call my shot and say that this kid is gonna be viewed as maybe the biggest no-doubter of a DL prospect as we've seen since Myles Garrett.




Can't miss.