YouTube Highlights Mania

Let us take a quick glance at the YouTube Superstars; the high school football recruits from the class of 2009 that make jaw-dropping plays.

Remember that kid in your neighborhood that just juked everyone out of their shorts while playing backyard football? You know that guy. If you’re lucky, that guy was you. Most likely though, it was someone else that you envied. Needless to say, the following group of recruits will be able to go to almost any college in the United States and play college football. Here we go:

Cierre Wood, a tailback from California, already has offers from several schools across the country. Southern California, Florida, Auburn, and Notre Dame are just a handful of the schools vying for Wood’s services. The clip was not really long, but it shows Wood’s versatility as a tailback, as he demonstrated speed, quickness, and good power for a high school junior.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rysl4lpcXiE

Marlon Brown’s reputation has stretched from back East to out West due in large part to his YouTube highlight reels. He could play any number of positions, but will likely end up playing wide receiver at the college level. What allows him to be so special, beyond his height and speed, would be his hand-eye coordination. He makes the difficult catches look rather easy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgvVSKuexLo

Perhaps the most exciting player to watch this year is…Andre Debose, a tailback/wide receiver from just outside of Orlando, Fla. This just in: when a football recruit has offers from Miami, Florida, and Florida State before he has completed his junior year of high school, and he’s a tailback or wide receiver to boot, great sign! This kid just makes everyone miss in traffic, lowers his pads to deliver blows, and has sprinter’s speed. Incredible player.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Psnt7zgrebo

If any tailback has a better highlight video than Debose it would have to be Bryce Brown, who is reportedly moving down to south Florida to be closer to his brother Arthur, who just signed with the University of Miami to play linebacker from the Hurricanes. Brown is much larger than Debose, making him more likely to make an immediate impact at the college level.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfAkcYiKXPQ

While each of the aforementioned recruits made their names on the football field over the past few years, the are several others that could have been included on the list. Look for more football recruiting information to pop up on Sports Talk Radio over the course of the summer heading into next football season.