The Buckeyes' Top Prospects for 2009 - Spring Game Edition

[crazybuckfan40]

Originally Posted by tlinc

I may be the only one, but i see Mobley as a Dwight Freeney/Elvis Dumervil like DE here. I think he will stay in the 255-260 range and be a low built, speedy pass rusher.

Agree with your overall point though about the depth at DT. Lots of competition there this year and into the future.

Yeah I can see that as well, but he will eventually gain weight and could follow the Heyward, Patterson, etc plan of play DE and then move inside later in career...

[LitlBuck]

Once again thanks again to all the members of the BPRT for putting this together. Appreciate all of your hard work and dedication. Great job!

[ChaosCrusader]

According to some scouting reports, our current crop of DT?s are average. Which contradicts "Agree with your overall point though about the depth at DT. Lots of competition there this year and into the future." Assuming we have the talent and I do not believe its development because the amount of players playing on Sunday. It must be philosophy in scheme requiring the DT's to smear the point of the attack and then read as they consume blocks. My aggressive preference is to penetrate and force the offense to commit blockers that have other assignments on the play.

[LitlBuck]

Originally Posted by ChaosCrusader

According to some scouting reports, our current crop of DT?s are average. Which contradicts "Agree with your overall point though about the depth at DT. Lots of competition there this year and into the future." Assuming we have the talent and I do not believe its development because the amount of players playing on Sunday. It must be philosophy in scheme requiring the DT's to smear the point of the attack and then read as they consume blocks. My aggressive preference is to penetrate and force the offense to commit blockers that have other assignments on the play.

I think it is more scheme FWIW. This sort of goes along with something I had been meaning to ask for a long time. I do not understand why Ohio State does not offer the big run stuffing defensive tackle. Rather they seem to recruit the more mobile undersized (less than 300 pound) DTs. I do not understand why they do not recruit the plus 300 pound DT where they can get a push up the middle and have their athletic defensive ends/LBs put pressure on the passer. This is especially important with more teams running the spread offense.

[mendensa]

I don't see how you can put "OSU leads" for Fellows @ this point regardless of what's been said/heard about him possibly switching over. As long as it still says "soft verbal" next to Illinois", OSU isn't leading anything. Plus, after his post spring game remarks, nothing he saw @ the spring game did anything to change that committment status.

[crazybuckfan40]

Originally Posted by mendensa

I don't see how you can put "OSU leads" for Fellows @ this point regardless of what's been said/heard about him possibly switching over. As long as it still says "soft verbal" next to Illinois", OSU isn't leading anything. Plus, after his post spring game remarks, nothing he saw @ the spring game did anything to change that committment status.

Once again, they get reports from emails, and other boards that lead them to believe this...IF you don't want to believe them then don't...Most understand that you take the news FWIW, but these guys have proven to know what they are talkin' about...

[LordJeffBuck]

Originally Posted by mendensa

As long as it still says "soft verbal" next to Illinois", OSU isn't leading anything.

Last year, Keith Wells kept telling recruiting sites that he was committed to Florida State for months after it became apparent to everyone that there was a zero percent chance that he'd end up signing with the Seminoles. By the time he formally de-committed from Florida State, Wells had already been a "silent verbal" to Ohio State for weeks.

Now, each kid's recruitment is different, and Fellows may end up sticking with his Illinois verbal ... but I don't think so.

[ChaosCrusader]