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    @texasag1969 said:

    I'm always a little leery of highlights, especially against far lesser competition than the NFL. But I do like how he is always looking around when he knocks one down and immediately searches for another to hit.

    While true Aggies, is there any other way to find a Jerry Rice (Mississippi Valley State), Larry Allen (Sonoma State),  Leon Lett (Emporia State) , or Ali Marpet (Hobart) dominating competition enough for intrigue?    Isn't it also conceivable guys on DI powerhouse teams can get overrated like Trent Richardson, Dee Milliner, Chance Warmack, Vernon Gholston, Big Daddy Wilkinson, etc...

    So what else should we look at regarding Forbes?   Size, strength, and the metrics assessing quickness, agility, explosion etc.  He ranked with elite in many of these except for wing span (which places him more at the position I think he can help us most at).

    I like where we landed him in a round that says let's develop the lad.  That said, he might not require as much patience as we may think.  A lot of his things that need tweaking are very doable IMO. 

    @flugel said:

    While true Aggies, is there any other way to find a Jerry Rice (Mississippi Valley State), Larry Allen (Sonoma State),  Leon Lett (Emporia State) , or Ali Marpet (Hobart) dominating competition enough for intrigue?   

    I have to agree with you there. I have a kid I've seen in middle school that has just made 2nd team HS RB as a 10th grader coming into this season on a team that lost the state finals in Jerryworld just the year before last in next to the highest level of HS Football. This kid is an absolutely amazing athlete who won district both in 7th & 8th grade playing QB and occasionally CB when they needed to steal the ball. My son says at practice a couple of weeks ago while a Tulsa coach was scouting a senior WR, he came to my son saying he was getting stopped by a very fast LB almost every play. My son's advice was to start his first move on the guy when he closed to about 10 yard. The kid is so quick and agile he is capable of Barry Sanders like multiple moves with that kind of distance. He went in, did as instructed and suddenly was running 30, 40 and 50 yard TDs. The Tulsa scout was absolutely flabbergasted by what he did after he heard my son tell him how to beat the LB and then watched him execute. Needless to say he's on that radar and before it's all over, if he stays healthy, he will be D1 bound. He's the fastest kid on the team and is only a few seconds under world record 400 m times just leaving 9th grade. Also set power lifting records for his weigh class. I don't want to put his name here, but I'm calling the A&M recruiters about him. He is something special and has one handed pass catching ability to top it all off. Once he commits to a college I'll give you his name to file away to keep up with at that level.

  • Call me Crazy..lots have.. but i watch the video above & somebody just clicked in my head.(watch forbes QB get crushed at 6:25 ? boom!,not on him) Reminded me of Forbes coming out of a bigger school. A.)Mystery X part 2, played C/G/LT till his Senior year at Nebraska. B.) He was 6'3" 305 at combine, benching 29 reps & played like a crazed Brian Bozworth on the OL. C.) Mystery X2 was drafted by the St Louis Rams in in 2005 in 3rd rd. pick 81..D.) Could you believe this guy scored a 32 on a wonderlic test?   On the field (only) I see a lot of  *Richie Incognito* coming out of Nebraska traits in Drew Forbes. Richie was asked to pull from everywhere his whole career (watch Richie's tape)  <<<   I ? we stole Drew Forbes in 6th round to play LT..(swing Robinson back to RT) 

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  • Just a followup on this kid who is just starting 10th grade. My son told me he just attended a UTSA football camp this weekend and ran a timed 40 in 4.43. That there is NFL speed.

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