Cameron Jurgens, 2018 commit.....
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Awesome! About time a Nebraska kid showed up in the Top 100. At TE no less, in this offense, that's a pretty exciting proposition!
A borderline high 4 almost 5 star commit according to another site. Number 2 TE recruit in the nation and #39 in the country for 2018 recruits. Good start to that class. There are still nearly two years until he'll sign his National Letter of Intent, but Jurgens is on pace to be one of the Huskers' highest-rated recruits in recent years. The last high school prospect to sign with NU ranked higher than where Jurgens currently sits was Aaron Green (No. 31) in 2011. Jurgens could also end up being one of the top recruits to come out of this state. Not since Baker Steinkuhler in the 2008 class has Nebraska produced a prospect ranked nationally in the top 100.
I wonder how this impacts the TE from Aurora (sp?). I would think not much since you can play two TEs but man imagine to home grown star TEs on the same team, SWEET.
From Beatrice, eh? I knew a guy from Pickrell at UNL. It's good to see MR get the locals excited about playing for NU once again.
A borderline high 4 almost 5 star commit according to another site. Number 2 TE recruit in the nation and #39 in the country for 2018 recruits. Good start to that class. There are still nearly two years until he'll sign his National Letter of Intent, but Jurgens is on pace to be one of the Huskers' highest-rated recruits in recent years. The last high school prospect to sign with NU ranked higher than where Jurgens currently sits was Aaron Green (No. 31) in 2011. Jurgens could also end up being one of the top recruits to come out of this state. Not since Baker Steinkuhler in the 2008 class has Nebraska produced a prospect ranked nationally in the top 100.
I don't know how to look it up but were Ahman, Deangelo and Frazier all lower than 31 nationally? I was thinking Ahman was top 10 but am probably wrong on that..
They were all very top rated recruits. But I think that was before the modern age of Scout, Rivals, 247...etc...
His Hudl film where he drags the kid about 10 yards into the end zone...just fantastic.
Ahman Green and Kevin Faulk were the top two running backs in the nation IIRC when they were seniors. I don't remember there being a top 100 list at that time, I just remember magazines would rank the players by positions.
Deangelo seemed to be around maybe #5 for the running backs IIRC?
A lot of schools keep an archive of former players bio page which includes prep accolades. I Googled it for you and NU happens to be one of them. Here is the bio page for Ahman Green and if you scroll towards the bottom you will see prep stuff...doesn't have a numerical ranking but at least one service had him ranked as the top rated RB in the country:
http://www.huskers.com/ViewArticle.dbml?ATCLID=1524205
You can search for your other guys on your own but it took all of ten seconds so it's not hard...
Also, I know the Tom Lemming top 100 lists from the 90s and early 2000s are on the internet...just Google "Tom Lemming top 100 (year you are looking for)"
Here you are again crapping all over this thread and implying that we don't know how to use the interwebs as well as Michigan or other teams fans.
ah...got it...I forgot when all the ranking stuff started! Thanks!
This guy is a good one!
I remember looking at one of the preview magazines prior to the 1994 season (either Lindy's or Athlon or Street and Smith's, I don't recall.) It had someone's top 100 high school seniors, the top three were 1. Josh Booty 2. Kevin Faulk 3. Ahman Green. In retrospect, Green probably deserved to be ranked ahead of the other two.
They had rankings back then...it just wasn't how it is today with the whole internet thing...Tom Lemming was the "guru" and you had the magazine Super Prep as well as a couple others...
With a quick google search I found (according to Lemming on the 1995 class):
1) Faulk, Green and Shaun Alexander were all rated as 5* RBs.
2) Peter Warrick was rated as the top what we'd call today an APB...was called a wingback
3) FBs were rated higher back then...Rickey Williams was rated as the #2...obviously he didn't end up playing FB
I get the impression that he'll be a tight end, but if he has the ability to be a DE then I would much rather have him on that side of the ball. In my opinion, that is a much more impactful position.
Nebraska could recruit nothing but in-state TEs and FBs from here on out and be just fine. Not saying that you'll always produce NFL prospects, but we would come out ahead when you figure that with those two positions taken care of-- more time & resources would be spent on other positions. Last two years and next two years alone, this state projects to produce three or four good TE prospects each year.
That would help immensely with recruiting. You gotta think Nebraska is not going to produce great skill position players year in and year out, but they should be able to produce some guys who are athletic and technically sound enough to play the positions you mention and offensive line - ahh, the good old days!
