Rivals 5-Star: Breaking down the quarterbacks
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — The Rivals 5-Star is within the books and now it’s time to begin the place breakdowns and provides ideas on every prospect who competed on the summer season’s largest occasion. We begin with quarterbacks:
One among solely two underclassmen on the Rivals 5-Star, when Grubbs was in rhythm the four-star Notre Dame commit appeared nice, threw a stupendous ball and hit receivers in stride. There have been additionally instances when the Lake Mary, Fla., standout struggled possibly the pace of the receivers and defensive backs and was barely tentative at instances. However on the entire, Grubbs had efficiency – not nice, not horrible – because the 2026 prospect will solely develop from taking part in increasingly more with older, elite gamers.
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Jones did what Jones does. The four-star Florida State commit from Jacksonville (Fla.) Mandarin is all the time constant, all the time throws a really catchable ball and he makes nice choices. It’s not all flash and wow throws however Jones spins it effectively, can fireplace it into tight home windows or put contact on his passes, layer it to all ranges and he’s only a good, savvy, accountable quarterback.
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When Knight is dealing, he appears to be like like arguably the very best quarterback within the nation. The lefty is so clean, the ball appears to be like so fairly, it will get to the receiver in stride and there’s a very Michael Penix really feel to how he performs the place. Over the previous couple of months and the final many big-time occasions nationally, Knight has knocked away this criticism of inconsistency and the Notre Dame commit has appeared phenomenal in current months, greater than backing up his No. 1 dual-threat rating.
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The previous few weeks have been very busy for the No. 1 prospect within the Rivals250 as he went from occasion to occasion, go to to go to however he got here to Rivals 5-Star and had one other phenomenal efficiency. Lewis throws an outstanding deep ball that’s proper on the cash each time. It’s really fairly shocking when he misses down the sector as a result of it nearly by no means occurs and it appears to be like easy. Does he throw the fastball as impressively as some others? No. However no person is as constant to all ranges because the USC commit.
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After the Elite 11 and the Rivals 5-Star, Russell was placed on five-star watch and with rankings arising later in August, the dialogue round whether or not the Alabama commit ought to have that highest rating will definitely be talked a couple of ton. The Duncanville, Texas quarterback, who flipped from SMU to the Crimson Tide, has a stupendous, clean supply, the ball comes out so easily and naturally and he has phenomenal contact on all his passes. Russell confirmed off large consistency as effectively at quite a few occasions and was arguably the very best (or second-best) quarterback on the occasion.
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The five-star quarterback from Newbury Park, Calif., who had a monstrous sophomore season had some actually massive highlights throughout the Rivals 5-Star and I’m positive will go dwelling with some issues to work on as effectively. The brand new Florida State commit has an enormous arm and put the ball proper the place it wanted to be quite a few instances. He additionally appeared uncertain on some passes and double clutched so he didn’t get every thing behind it and was behind receivers a couple of instances. He’s already forward of so many 2026 QBs even being on the occasion so there have been positively some positives and a few studying classes.
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Smith has thrown the soccer a ton in current weeks as he was on the Elite 11 final week after which got here proper to the Rivals 5-Star and positively had some vivid moments. Smith confirmed he may layer the ball effectively throughout 7-on-7 play and did a pleasant job throwing to all ranges as effectively. He may nonetheless tighten up some issues however the Oregon legacy has had some high quality showings as effectively and together with his dimension and pedigree there’s a lot to love.
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The Ohio State commit will absolutely be within the dialog for the No. 1 rating within the 2025 Rivals250. He has the identical bodily dimension as first-rounder Drake Maye in April’s NFL Draft, he has been completely excellent at quite a few occasions this offseason together with on the Rivals 5-Star in each atmosphere – one-on-ones, 7-on-7, the QB Problem and he threw the ball 70 yards within the lengthy toss. A giant dialogue is forward and St. Clair will likely be a serious a part of it.