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Im sure Husker twitter weirdos probably would, I dont count them.
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A prodigy
Brian Christopherson13 hrsVIP0
It's still 19 months until Trae Taylor can sign with Nebraska, but there's nothing at all hasty about him picking a school now. Not when you consider the 16-year-old has spent more months than that as a prospect, pondering his options, visiting schools, learning offenses.
In some cases, reciting back what he's learning on the spot. Oh, there's a story there we'll get to telling.
But his time already spent as a recruit is worth emphasizing even for those who, for fair reason, are skeptical in this day and age of college football about what is made to last.
"He is very well traveled. He knows each of the coaching staffs and their offenses and their rosters in and out," said 247Sports analyst Allen Trieu on the show just before Taylor's announcement on Thursday. "This decision was not made lightly. It's not an early decision that was made in a rash way at all."
It sure can help the Huskers to have him on board already too.
The 2027 quarterback commit was already getting going as a peer recruiter a day after picking Nebraska. Sending out messages to big-time prospects like Myson Johnson-Cook and Ahmad Hudson about the Huskers being the right pick.
"OK, let's get this started," he said in a post at Johnson-Cook on social media with a Husker nudge.
A day before, on the 247Sports show in which Taylor made his announcement, 247Sports and CBSSports analyst Smoke Dixon told a story that offered insights into what a quick study the four-star quarterback can be. Even when he was starting middle school.
Dixon recalled his first month on the job when he was the general manager for Maryland football.
He heard of a 12-year-old Taylor from Donovan Dooley, a QBs coach who worked with Taylor and also Bryce Underwood, among others.
"First month on the job, he calls me, 'Listen, I got you a quarterback. I got my baby (in Underwood). I got the baby of the baby," explained Dixon, with the latter being Taylor.
Dixon told Dooley there's no way he could go to Maryland coach Mike Locksley and tell him he wants to have a kid in middle school on a visit to campus. "He's like, 'I'm telling you. He's the one.'"
So Taylor came through campus. Got a tour. The quarterback got to tuck himself in a film room with the Terps offensive staff while Dixon was giving his attention to some older recruits.
Dixon popped his head back in to the coaches' offices about an hour later to check with then-Maryland offensive coordinator and QBs coach Dan Enos to see how it was going. According to Dixon, Enos shared how Taylor processed what the coaches showed him and recited back three installed sets verbatim with the checks and audibles.
Enos told him, "We've got to offer him."
And they did. Maryland offered him as a seventh grader. Bryce Underwood was there when they did too.
A few years later when announcement day came, Dixon was offering high praise for how Taylor continues to develop, describing him as an "elite processor" going through his reads and is able to get his third option when needed.
"And then ... pocket awareness. His pocket toughness," Dixon said. "His overall ability to navigate ... side step, but keep his eyes down field and throw a catchable ball ... When we talk about quarterbacks with an elite skillset, we talk about touch. Touch is throwing a catchable football that you can run with that's not going to break your fingers ... So overall, a 2027 quarterback that is an elite processor, understands how to navigate the pocket, accuracy and touch. The sky's the limit and he still has a few more years to get to college."
Off the field, Trieu believed Taylor and his family did their due diligence as they worked through the recruiting process before Thursday's Husker headline.
That included even taking that final visit to Nebraska this past weekend before making the call.
"In the same way that Smoke just talked about his processing on the field – that's the way he's gone about his recruitment and with a very good support system around him," Trieu said. "You talk about decision making on the field and that kind of maturity and that poise that he shows, that's how they handled this recruitment.
"He's been a lot of places, he's met a lot of people, he's gone on a lot of visits. Even in this last month he's gone on even more visits again just to make sure he checks those boxes over and over again before he makes this decision."
Husker commit Trae Taylor has been on the recruiting radar since, oh, 7th grade
Husker commit Trae Taylor was impressing a power conference OC even at age 12 with how quick he was processing things. A story from someone who was there from his first offer on.
Brian Christopherson13 hrsVIP0It's still 19 months until Trae Taylor can sign with Nebraska, but there's nothing at all hasty about him picking a school now. Not when you consider the 16-year-old has spent more months than that as a prospect, pondering his options, visiting schools, learning offenses.
In some cases, reciting back what he's learning on the spot. Oh, there's a story there we'll get to telling.
But his time already spent as a recruit is worth emphasizing even for those who, for fair reason, are skeptical in this day and age of college football about what is made to last.
"He is very well traveled. He knows each of the coaching staffs and their offenses and their rosters in and out," said 247Sports analyst Allen Trieu on the show just before Taylor's announcement on Thursday. "This decision was not made lightly. It's not an early decision that was made in a rash way at all."
It sure can help the Huskers to have him on board already too.
The 2027 quarterback commit was already getting going as a peer recruiter a day after picking Nebraska. Sending out messages to big-time prospects like Myson Johnson-Cook and Ahmad Hudson about the Huskers being the right pick.
"OK, let's get this started," he said in a post at Johnson-Cook on social media with a Husker nudge.
A day before, on the 247Sports show in which Taylor made his announcement, 247Sports and CBSSports analyst Smoke Dixon told a story that offered insights into what a quick study the four-star quarterback can be. Even when he was starting middle school.
Dixon recalled his first month on the job when he was the general manager for Maryland football.
He heard of a 12-year-old Taylor from Donovan Dooley, a QBs coach who worked with Taylor and also Bryce Underwood, among others.
"First month on the job, he calls me, 'Listen, I got you a quarterback. I got my baby (in Underwood). I got the baby of the baby," explained Dixon, with the latter being Taylor.
Dixon told Dooley there's no way he could go to Maryland coach Mike Locksley and tell him he wants to have a kid in middle school on a visit to campus. "He's like, 'I'm telling you. He's the one.'"
So Taylor came through campus. Got a tour. The quarterback got to tuck himself in a film room with the Terps offensive staff while Dixon was giving his attention to some older recruits.
Dixon popped his head back in to the coaches' offices about an hour later to check with then-Maryland offensive coordinator and QBs coach Dan Enos to see how it was going. According to Dixon, Enos shared how Taylor processed what the coaches showed him and recited back three installed sets verbatim with the checks and audibles.
Enos told him, "We've got to offer him."
And they did. Maryland offered him as a seventh grader. Bryce Underwood was there when they did too.
A few years later when announcement day came, Dixon was offering high praise for how Taylor continues to develop, describing him as an "elite processor" going through his reads and is able to get his third option when needed.
"And then ... pocket awareness. His pocket toughness," Dixon said. "His overall ability to navigate ... side step, but keep his eyes down field and throw a catchable ball ... When we talk about quarterbacks with an elite skillset, we talk about touch. Touch is throwing a catchable football that you can run with that's not going to break your fingers ... So overall, a 2027 quarterback that is an elite processor, understands how to navigate the pocket, accuracy and touch. The sky's the limit and he still has a few more years to get to college."
Off the field, Trieu believed Taylor and his family did their due diligence as they worked through the recruiting process before Thursday's Husker headline.
That included even taking that final visit to Nebraska this past weekend before making the call.
"In the same way that Smoke just talked about his processing on the field – that's the way he's gone about his recruitment and with a very good support system around him," Trieu said. "You talk about decision making on the field and that kind of maturity and that poise that he shows, that's how they handled this recruitment.
"He's been a lot of places, he's met a lot of people, he's gone on a lot of visits. Even in this last month he's gone on even more visits again just to make sure he checks those boxes over and over again before he makes this decision."
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If you want to get an idea of why Taylor has the potential to be a supreme peer recruiter of not just 27s but also 26s, watch this video about his 7 v 7 team - a top organization with teams comprised of national elite talent - 150 kids in 18U
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I do. Which is why I commented on it.
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Continue to pearl clutch over a 16 year old. Good job
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not after he committed here sumbitch
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You’ve all been around the broccoli hair crew aka the modern kid. Does any of this behavior surprise you. Zero discipline. Kids run the show
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I haven’t been around him. What’s he like in person?
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Rivals has only given out three 5* ratings to kids in the 2027 class. But they have Taylor as the No. 11 overall prospect, which if he holds, will easilly be in 5-star range.
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He's rated a 6.0. He'll have to advance in the ratings to a 6.1 to be a 5 star. The highest 6.0 4-star in the class of 2025 is the 34th ranked player. That because there are probably over 2000 players ranked when a class graduates and only about 400-450 ranked at the end of sophomore year. There are a significant number of kids who end up highly ranked who don't even see the field sophomore year.
I share your optimism that he'll make it, though.
On 3 and 247 is a different story. He is a 90 in both of those services; you wouldn't even get in the top 300 of a senior class in either service with that number. Although 5-star will be a tall order I think we'll see him make big jumps in both.
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