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The Most Impressive Recruits & Biggest Busts from Under Armour All-American Game

Edwin WeathersbyJun 7, 2018

So the Under Armour Game has wrapped in Orlando, and we have one of the two big high school football games in the books. Saturday we'll check out the Army Game, but first things first: 

Let's take a review of the Under Armour Game. Which recruits were impressive and look like future college studs? Which recruits left us desiring more and better? Who looked good? Who needs work?

I've got all that and more inside!

Impressive: Andrus Peat, OT

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I've been raving about Peat all cycle long. This guy just looks like a franchise LT, and oh yeah, he plays like one too. It's hard to watch the trenches on TV, but when I did, I loved what I saw.

You could easily see the natural knee bend to Peat's game. That's huge for an OT. Also, he showed great snap quickness, and I even saw him get him on the second level with a sharp angle and seal off a LB on the backside of a run play!

Nebraska, Stanford, USC and Florida State are salivating at the mouth right now.

Impressive: Malcom Brown, DT

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Tell me you saw the Longhorns' pledge just show up play after play in the first half? B/R's own Michael Pinto commented to me that "Brown looked like a man playing in a sandbox."

The 6'2", 280 pounder just showed why I feel he'll be a perfect three-technique in Austin. Brown flashed exceptional snap quickness, solid leverage, a good base and power to push through double teams to make TFLs.

Texas has them a good one coming to Austin.

Bust: Deion Sanders Jr., CB

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Sanders is a 5'8", 170-pound corner that probably will never be his dad on the field, but who is? Besides maybe Darrelle Revis, but that's another story.

Little Primetime got "Mossed" by Amari Cooper for a 70+ yard TD bomb in the first half, exposing his smallish stature. Looks like he's going to likely be a nickel corner and special teamer at best in college.

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Impressive: Reggie Ragland, LB

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Ragland is another player I really like in this year's class. He's a 6'4", 245-pound LB prospect that fits Alabama's 3-4 scheme perfectly as an ILB.

I had questions about Ragland's ability to play in space, but tonight he shut me up to some degree. On a few plays, I saw Ragland roam a bit in space as a spy and break down in the open and make the stop.

Impressive: Jameis Winston and Tanner Mangum, QB

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Now, Winston I expected this from. I mean, he's an athletic QB that has dual threat capabilities and reminds me a bit of Kiehl Frazier. But to actually see him make dazzling runs live was a marvel.

Mangum, I thought was more of a caretaker type of QB, but tonight he showed that he's actually a solid prospect. He flashed an easy throwing motion, solid arm strength, good feet, athleticism and some playmaking ability.

Florida State is trying to lock Winston in, and BYU thinks Mangum will fare better than Jake Heaps did in Provo.

Bust: Connor Brewer, QB

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No, this has zero to do with Brewer leaving the game due to concussion-like symptoms. I just felt he was not impressive when he was in the game. He looked out of sync with his receivers and just not in tune with the offense.

Impressive: Duke Johnson, Amari Cooper and Marvin Bracy

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We knew coming in that these guys had speed, but they really put it on display tonight. The Duke had several big KOR's that were impressive and flashed speed and quickness whenever he was in at RB.

Cooper dazzled on a great punt return in the second half that initially had Herman Edwards scratching his head, then loving it. Plus he had the long bomb for a score in the first half.

Bracy, as I watched more and more, showed excellent burst in and out of his breaks and flashed a second gear. 

Bust: Patrick Destefano, OT

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The Clemson pledge was not a bust per se, he just got caught waist-bending a few times. That's a cardinal sin for an OL and is exactly what DEs want OTs to do. 

If he's waist bending now as a prep OT at a high school All-Star game, what is he going to do when he sees Jadeveon Clowney line up against him in the fourth quarter when Destefano and Clemson play South Carolina in the Palmetto Bowl?

Impressive: Johnathan Gray, RB

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Gray showed all night why I have him as one of the top five overall players in America. You see that he's likely more than the 195 pounds he's listed at, and he has improved his play quickness.

But what impressed me the most about Gray was his hands. Remember in the summer, there were whispers about Gray's hands being a bit more suspect than, say, Kaiser Soze.

Gray had a few catches that proved he'll be a solid option out of the backfield, even on a nice sideline catch that was cancelled thanks to a holding call on Curtis Riser in the second quarter.

Impressive: Mario Edwards and Noah Spence, DEs

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They are undoubtedly the two best DE prospects in the nation, and they did not disappoint tonight. Mario Edwards shocked a ton by coming to Orlando at 297 pounds, in shape!

Spence displayed elite snap quickness, an ability to jump on top in a hurry and a burst to finish all week and in tonight's game.

Edwards set the edge well, anchored and stopped the run very well. Florida State will do all they can to hold off Texas, LSU and Oklahoma for him, while Spence is solid to Ohio State.

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