CRITICAL: Florida State Seminoles FIGHT to SIGN Jamarin Simmons with Rivals in PURSUIT

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We're going to be discussing two things today, specifically quarterback recruiting a little

bit later on in the show.

And in particular, my opinion on the entirety of the champ moms recruitment.

And we're also going to talk about a variety of players that either saw this weekend or

got some intel on this weekend at the seven's tournament in Atlanta.

And with that, I start with the following, and I've talked about him before, and I'm going

to talk about him about a thousand more times between now and national sunny day.

That is Jamaran Simmons, wide receiver, God be high school in Tallahassee, Florida.

I get the opportunity to work with him.

I saw my shirt on and even got my wristband here on YouTube.

From the seven's tournament in Atlanta, Jamaran is him, if you will.

We have six minutes from Florida State's campus.

Florida State is in a battle, and I asked Jamaran Saturday, hey, anything new with the recruitment

and all that.

And to be honest with you, it was pretty interesting to talk to him because I don't remember him

bringing up Georgia before Tennessee's involved, et cetera.

Some of these other schools are starting to try to get their visits lined up.

He's got Clemson the last weekend in May, Florida State, the very first weekend in June

for official visits.

But this looks like this could be a four or five, six visit kind of deal.

So Florida State is definitely in the mix, but it's going to be a long, drawn out recruitment

and the way he's playing.

He gets to set the tone of who, when, where, why, and how.

He is absolutely unequivocally elite.

I think he's a national top 50 player, possibly top 25.

He dominates just about in every way possible and to give you an example of what I mean.

He's a wide receiver and he scored several touchdowns.

We have a really good offense, Teddy Jargs or quarterback, Keon standing for somebody else.

I'll talk about a second one of our other receivers who's also going to visit Florida State.

We've got guys all over the place on offense, but we got into a battle day two and defense

one playing great.

They threw Jamaran into the mix and it went into OT.

You get one play, the score that it goes back and forth.

Jamaran ended the game with a pick.

He was just put in there and he made a play and he just keeps doing it.

He scores the touchdowns that get us ahead.

He scores the interception to close out games.

He's that guy.

Florida State, like every other school once players like this and his offer list is grotesque.

You can't lose kids in your backyard, like Jamaran Simmons.

I've said that before and as I noted a minute ago about talking about him between now and

sunny day a thousand times, I'm going to say that a thousand times.

I don't know where he's going.

I don't think Jamaran knows where he's going, but he is literally from his own lips to my

ears, six minutes from Florida State's campus.

That's how far he lives away.

Again, Jamaran Simmons lives six minutes from FSU.

If he doesn't go to FSU, his other schools, it would be pretty hard pill to swallow.

Miami, Clemson, Georgia, possibly Florida or Tennessee, like it's all the schools

FSU either is arrival with, recruits directly with in the league with, et cetera, like it's

just bad.

So this recruitment to me will tell the tale in a lot of ways between now and the end

of summer.

How much faith he has in FSU or not, what his relationships are and all that, those will

be exposed one way or the other.

Right now, Florida State is doing a good job with him and there's a long way to go.

But again, as I noted, Georgia being in the mix, some of these other schools with these

OBS, it tells me that, you know, why he would like to get it done this summer.

He's a Florida kid.

He's taking his time.

He knows he's a wheat.

He's earned the right to think that way to be quite frank.

Florida State is going to have to be insanely patient as well all the other schools and that

could actually end up helping Florida State because they're going to recruit him until

he signs, regardless, again, because he's right down the street.

But will Georgia, I don't know, Kirby may or may not, Kirby is really a wolf with recruiting.

He's hard to predict.

But as it relates to the other schools in the mix, like Miami, I mean, Mario is pretty

much the same way.

He's going to recruit all the way through.

I would be surprised if Florida is not in that same boat.

I mean, there are only two hours away, two and a half hours away from Tauhassy.

They will definitely be in the mix.

And then finally, there's always a wildcard, somebody that is in the mix yet might, could

be an organ or an LSU or something, you never know.

But he is the kid that is absolutely him.

He makes the plays.

I don't care if they recruit him a free safety.

I don't care if they're recruiting a corner, nickel, and a special way receiver.

Jamaran Simmons is absolutely any wheat player.

Now on down the list, and I want to mention Keon Stannifer because he's buddies with

Jamaran.

He plays with us at Coastline Stars.

Those of you who don't know, Keon is a pure swat.

He was at Athens Academy right there at the next University of Georgia, basically.

But I forget the school.

I think he's transferring to Covington, but it's one of the other schools in the greater

in Wanda area.

He is electric.

He made some incredible plays.

I got to go through my film over the next couple of days and I'll put up some shorts.

But he had one where God was like seemingly right in his face when he turned around to

catch it.

Now I got to do it seven on seven to touch the guy and he's down.

That's it.

There's no flag.

There's no nothing.

He made the guy grasp an air and they were practically face to face.

He was insane.

His side to side, lateral movement skills are bananas.

He said, I can't remember the date Brian, but I'm visiting Florida State the same weekend

that Jamaran is.

Okay.

Well, that knows it out because Jamaran's visiting Florida State the first weekend in

June.

So this is a kid that Florida State is doing a pretty good job with Tennessee and several

other schools are involved.

Georgia Tech is going to get an OB.

We'll see where he ends up, but that's a really good football player.

Well about another kid, Balladade, another kid that is on coastline.

He recently got a Florida State visit or excuse me, offer.

He's thinking about a visit and he probably will take it OB to FSU.

He's originally from Canada.

He's a kid.

It's in track.

He ran 10, 8, 10, 9 last year.

In the first year he did it.

He did.

He could take it serious.

He said no idea what he's doing.

He didn't even go to track practice every day.

He told me his goal was to at least get a 10-5 this year.

He's going to take track more serious and he's a kid that is jacked up.

He's a corner.

He's six foot, 185 pounds.

I'd guess something like that.

He's built like a boxer really put together kind of his build the way he's growing.

He could end up being a safety, but the way he runs, he can play corner.

We've got a lot to learn, but he's very talented.

He lives in Knoxville, Tennessee now.

He goes to Catholic College, one of the better programs in the state of Tennessee.

Kentucky, four to four to state, several other schools are involved.

Indiana's definitely highly involved with him.

He could go to a lot of different places, but the four to state offer was one.

He was pretty excited about anyone sitting down to FSU.

Julius Jones Jr.

I know Julius pretty well.

I spoke with him a little bit yesterday and today, as I do this on a Sunday night.

Right now, the three schools standing out with him are my aunt, no particular order here.

Miami, Oregon and Notre Dame, his dad, of course, is Julius Jones Sr., played at Notre

Dame, then with the Cowboys, the Seahawks, and I believe he finished with the Saint.

Sr. was a running back.

Jr. is definitely a wide receiver.

He's just absolutely electric.

I don't know where he's going, four to state, he'll probably get an OB, but right now

they're not in the very top group.

Nick Weneer, that's a kid, four to state, still trying to get another wide receiver from

South Florida.

Imagine that.

I forget which school he's at now, but I think he was at Northwestern, but he's transferred

if I remember right.

Bottom line, Nick Weneedon, which high school is at.

He is shot out of a cannon and saw him play a little bit, really, really athletic kid

and just, he makes good plays when he has the opportunity to make him.

He plays with C1N, or at least he did this weekend, and they won the tournament by the

way at sevens, and he was a part of it, but they've got other guys that are really good

too, and they throw it around to different players.

It's pretty balanced, so.

But Nick, probably end of visiting four to state is my thinking, but right now, SC and

Miami, I think are the two to watch.

I just want to mention this kid, because I'm going to go into quarterback recruiting in

just a second here, and it could end up helping four to state.

They're not involved, but Peter Bork, kid from the Northeast, just shows you how much

recruiting has changed, is looking at Penn State, Virginia Tech, those aren't surprising,

but also Georgia.

We come back and want to go over quarterback recruiting.

If he ends up in Georgia, that's just one less school, four to state is probably going

to have to end up competing with, and that's an important factor.

When we come back, we'll talk a little bit more about the broad spectrum of quarterback

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All right, the quarterback battle for in recruiting is almost impossible to fall, even though

I like interview these kids face to face now with NIL and everything 100% full on disclosure

out of talk with multiple recruiting and else about that this weekend.

It changes out on a whim.

This is the one position in particular that I have very, and I mean it is very little interest

in saying who leads who doesn't because the NIL swings are massive.

So with that in mind, this is just my take on the intel that I have either gotten directly

from recruits or other people at the event at sevens, et cetera.

Take it for what it's worth and it is only good right now with with quarterback recruiting

it is volatile at the very least.

So just wanted to make that very clear because I know the people said, well, you said this

and this quarterback recruiting is a different animal.

So Andre Adams is going to visit for the state that's been confirmed by multiple people.

I believe I saw it either on Warchan or Rolls-24, I can't remember where, but it had been

kicked around a couple of different played, maybe both.

That's a kid that somebody I've talked about on this show, he's from Antioch, Tennessee,

his touchdown interception ratio shows maturity 35 to one.

I don't care where you play, that's what you're looking for and he's a guy that is very, very

accurate.

He's a mobile.

I've seen him play live, but he was at the Under Armour All-American game.

I don't think he's a guy that is fully ready prospect yet, he's still building as you

would expect.

He's got another year of high school when he's done growing and filling out, he'll be well

over 200 pounds, but he's nimble, but he moves mostly to throw for the state visit again

in the march.

That'll probably tell you the tale of where for the state's at.

I don't know if it's going to matter or not, we'll see, but you want to get as many

good players like this on campus as possible, somebody norvels men involved with.

Israel Abrams, this is the one that, you could argue, he's the most volatile person for

the entire industry right now.

He's from Montini Catholic on the North Side of Chicago, I can't remember if it's North

Side.

He's from Chicago and he plays at a good program and he's another kid that's mobile, he likes

to run a little bit more.

I would say than Adams, but it's debatable and like him, he still runs more to extend

the play than he does to take off and try to be some kind of wizard or Houdini in space

and risking his body.

He's going to extend the play and more often than not keep his eyes down the field and

try to make a pass.

Really awesome when it comes to making that crazy side arm throw or throwing around a guy,

he's got some unique highlight plays.

Having stated that, Israel Abrams most think he's going to end up at all.

But note, just a minute ago, I said something on purpose within IEL, and everything that's

going on, I don't put any stock in leans right now.

Show me the sign paperwork, that's obviously in December.

All I can do is cover it right now, but something tells me this is not going to end in a

basic manner.

A lot of schools have gotten involved and his list is odd.

Miami is involved for the state is involved.

They've got multiple visits allegedly, supposedly coming up, Auburn is involved, Kentucky's

involved, Purdue is involved, like it's just random.

And with this talented as he is and he's a kid that needs to go out his frame, he's

a little bit thinner in my opinion, just by looking at him, I haven't seen him live

like I have Andre Adams, but he's 180 something at 6'4, 6'3 and a half.

He needs probably a year to get up over 200 pounds, but I love the ability to throw the

football the way he does, and again, from all kinds of angles, that's a good player.

The other kid they offered recently, another Chicago area kid, and I like his film a lot,

Jake Narok.

He's a kid that's probably a little bit more pocket than even what Israel is, but man,

he's accurate.

I believe it's 41-2 on his touchdown to interception ratio off the top of my head, watched his

film the other day and did a, he was part of my podcast for the photo podcast, a new

live show that I do, and he's just electric.

Fort estate just got involved, and he's got a ton of offers from the Midwest and whatnot,

but this is another Chicago kid.

Maybe Fort State is trying to make amends in the Midwest.

I really don't know for what reason, but that would be pretty interesting.

Last player that I want to mention is Champ Mons, and this is one of the stronger takes

that I have.

There are a lot of different Fort State people, whether it's Fort Chan, et cetera, have

their different opinions on where he's going to go.

I've been around him a number of times.

I doubt he really knows where he's going.

The school that I wonder about the most because early on, I was told it was not just like

they're like, well, Ohio State was going to go all in on Champ Mons, but then he reclined.

I don't know what the situation is there.

We'll see, but I wouldn't be surprised at anywhere he went.

He said, Viral Beach High School, they were in the state finals this last year.

Fort off, Fort estate, and Miami are involved.

Notre Dame and Ohio State are involved, and there are other schools out of state as well.

A lot of people think it's Notre Dame or Fort estate, for rumors like he was in Fort

for a state found never asked him.

But I would be very wary of weaning any direction with him because he's getting pulled everywhere.

For those that don't know, Champ, when he was 15 years old, looked like he was from the

neck down, like he was 24, in like any lead athlete, 24, like he's put together.

His legs are more like an age backs than they are a court like he is put together, and

there's just no other way.

You got to see it to understand, you're like holy cow, but he reclastic, he's going to

be classed 27.

I should be 28, so he should be going into his junior, but he's reclassing, so he's

going to be a senior, but he's so physically developed, I get it.

I'm not sure if it's Ohio State, if it's Fort estate or wherever, but Fort estate is

in the mix.

He's going to be on campus and my strong take here again is this, pump the brakes on any

school.

Like Fort estate or Ohio State, on any school, it's just getting started with him because

some people are still adjusting the champ being in the class of 27.

Some people are going to look at him, and eventually, even after seeing the film, like

I've, again, I've had the pleasure of seeing why I'm in on film.

It's pretty obvious.

It's in a wheat player.

I bet there's going to be some more big offers coming.

Remember, the May evaluation period is still coming up.

Let's see what other schools get involved in trying to get an OB.

Fort estate will get one of his OB, I'll be shocked if they don't, but this recruitment

is about to be wild.

You combine that with Israel Abrams, Andre Adams, just those alone, push, you got Jake.

They just offered the other kid from Chicago, Fort estate quarterback recruiting.

They're right in the middle of the storm.

It's going to be really fun.

We're going to talk a lot about it right here on Lockdown Seminole's, and with that,

I leave you.

Thank you very much for checking out Lockdown Seminole's.

We will be back again tomorrow on Tuesday.

I will have some more comments about recruiting for sure, and then we'll start doing some position

stuff and talking about my expectations.

I have some predictions that I want to share.

We'll do it at least one, and if not two mailbox this week, because I'm going to ask some

questions about what your expectations are for spring, what your position battle expectations

are, which players you want to see, a lot of different things coming up.

So we'll have some fun with that.

Everybody have a good one.

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