The Mr. Football countdown is back! Here are the second eight players in our Mr. Football Sweet Sixteen presented by Jonathan Grice!
By Makayla Holder / The Charlotte Observer
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[Music] All right let's get to my eight we saw Coach Grinder's eight here let's go Ahead and look at these eight to round Out our total 16 again you know this is An alphabetical order and no way um is This list ranked my first guy we have Here Nolan hoer you know if we've got to Put a guy here that's that's a special Teams participant he's a guy that's Going to be one of the best I mean You're talking about maybe one of the Best kickers in this nation committed to Clemson we know what he can do how he's Good I told him he has that Stephen Curry range on the football field as Soon as you cross the 50 you know you'd Feel like he's in range and he's done That with some over 50 yard uh field Goals this year and been big um of Course in one of the biggest games of The year versus Chambers leading them to A victory with his field goals and Tavius husky out of Crest I think this Is one of the guys that has emerged Again to really you know if we look Later on and see that he's a finalist I Think the beginning of the year the way He played looking at that Gaffney game Just how he really took over that game And is leading Crest twixs an Exceptional season he's that guy that I Think is really transformative and one Of those guys that has taken this season
By storm the third guy Jonathan palor I Mean he's committed to NC State you know He's 59 170 he's a guy that's a receiver He's an at because he can do it all if You put him in the back field he has That athletic ability to be dominant There so a guy you know guy we're Looking to to be you know an incredible Player for Burlington Cummings this year J Jamal rule out of Salsbury I mean you Know an excellent player last year in Jama Wales they had graduated what do They do bring in another running back Who's top 50 in the nation for rushing Yards so far this year a phenomenal Player as he continues to lead Salsbury Next is Alex Taylor 6'2 I think it's About 170 pound receiver out of Grimley Big time fourstar uh receiver here again Has made some amazing catches this year I've seen on Twitter some of the Highlights of some of those catches in The end zone where he's dragging feet You know making it a hand for any Defender to have to get in front of him And guard uh game over game Devon Thomas Out of Roseville you know we talked About Braden ainson we talked about Receivers Noah Rogers in the past new Head coach rer Rackley a former running Back of course he's gonna have a guy in There that's going to tote that rock and Dvon Thomas fits that bill you know we Know they played big games like Butler
They played other top teams as they're Getting into the conference play his Stats and his numbers have him you know Really high in the state as far as Rushing yards this year we talked last Week in Grace's game of the week about Young being the two side uh two sides of The ball star uh for Monroe and the Coach Johnny s he had a big game against Forest Hills and that big rivalry game He's a guy on both sides of the ball as Even last year a guy that had I think it Was four interceptions in a game you Know someone that you don't want to Really you know worry about on that Defensive side of the ball but on Offense you have to worry because you Know the offense is going to float Through him in a big way and ironically Here Malcolm Ziggler probably our best Athlete of the bunch grinder he's a he's A 1079 100 meter dash guy he's a at Big Time athlete can play the DB position Committed to UNCC definitely a guy out Of that Raleigh area that I think is one That's an amazing player and somebody That you're gonna have to watch out for And I think he's you know does does a Great job of rounding out our list here So grinder we have an amazing list of 16 And I look forward to seeing what we can What we can do as we get this list down It's gonna be tough it's gonna be some Long nights but I I've got faith get to
Our best now this this is our final 16 Right now does not mean that someone Cannot jump in there and climb into it While we break it down and when we go to 12 when we go to eight if someone keeps Performing and they're outside the list They're around 19 or 20 they can climb Back into the rankings just keep balling And you can get up there yep regular Season's about to end soon got to trim It to eight soon we'll be watching Hopefully we have some big performances
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