My Favorite Draft Prospects: Part 1 By George Forder @GeorgeForder3 on Feb 20, 2021, 9:30am EST +
Anyone who watches a decent amount of film or pays attention to the draft ends up favoring some prospects over all others. They are what I would refer to as my guys. It doesn t mean I would move heaven and earth to draft them, but it means that I would always be cognizant of their availability when my pick came up in the draft. These aren t one through five on my big board, but I like these picks for Miami where they should (hopefully) fall on draft night.
Driving into the tiny West Texas town of Sanderson feels a bit like finding a pile of bones in the desert intriguing, but you might at first be reluctant to look more closely. An hour’s drive southeast of Fort Stockton, this far-flung community of about eight hundred residents is a little rough around the edges, but if you take the time to get to know it, you’ll be glad you did.
As I arrived, I passed decrepit buildings, a crumbling old theater, and a Stripes gas station that sells tacos and burritos made on-site. The Z Bar Trading Co. hardware store, where a twenty-foot metal sculpture of a
Oregon Ducks Signing Day capsule: 4-star outside linebacker Jabril McNeill
Updated Dec 16, 2020;
Posted Dec 16, 2020
Four-star outside linebacker Jabril McNeill tweets out a picture moments before signing his binding National Letter of Intent. (Courtesy of Jabril McNeill)
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Name: Jabril McNeill
High school: Sanderson High School (Raleigh, North Carolina)
Distance from Eugene, road miles (drive time): 2,883 miles (roughly 44 hours)
Commitment date: September 14, 2020
Rankings
: 3-star prospect; No. 35 prospect in North Carolina
247Sports composite: 3-star outside linebacker; nation’s No. 582 overall prospect, No 36 outside linebacker, No. 31 prospect in North Carolina
: 3-star outside linebacker; No. 279 prospect in the region, No. 57 outside linebacker
Offers: 18, highlighted by Arkansas, Auburn, Kentucky, Louisville, Missouri, North Carolina state, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia Tech, Washington and West Virginia