close miss recruits

[lucky5]

Who are some of the recent close misses who went on to do well in college or the NFL?

 

[HawkOn15]

Ross p

 

[BirdistheWord]

Karan Higdon

 

[HawkinK.C.1]

Melvin Gordon
Eno off to a good start.

 

[Boomhawk04]

Michael Crabtree

 

[Niko13]

Not all recent but here are a few:
Chris Leak
Matt Ryan
Melvin Gordon
Larry Fitzgerald
Eno Benjamin (too soon?)

 

[fezzador]

Seantrel Henderson

 

[Hwkfn1]

Drew Brees

 

[BirdistheWord]

AJ Derby

 

[Hawkstud1982]

Crabtree would have looked great in black and gold.

 

[pink shizzle]

One of the Kouandjio brothers.

 

[Stormn Norman]

Delano Hill, Dwayne Jarrett, Jeremy Maclin, Amara Darboh, Adrian Arrington, Stanley Havili.. Can I add David Johnson or no??? And couple running backs thats KF even mentioned that slip my mind..

 

[destewart]

Drew Brees

You never offered Brees. His only Power5 offer besides Purdue was Kentucky.

 

[anon_8rcdnbko1jbe0]

You never offered Brees. His only Power5 offer besides Purdue was Kentucky.

If memory serves Hayden decided the offer between Brees and Matt Sherman.

 

[FlickShagwell]

If memory serves Hayden decided the offer between Brees and Matt Sherman.

It was Kyle McCann.

 

[LarryMullenJr.]

It was Kyle McCann.

From the "Things I Never Knew and Would've Been Better Off Having Them Stayed That Way" file.

 

[Suterman]

Kirk Cousins.

 

[Alwaysnextyeer]

The LB with the Cowboys. Went to Penn St.

 

[DutchyFunStar]

The LB with the Cowboys. Went to Penn St.

Sean Lee

 

[TKingpin]

Sounds like we almost got Ingram, the Heisman trophy winner that went to Alabama.

 

[hawkfeever]

Matt Ryan QB for Atlanta

 

[cm8124]

James White I believe was down to Iowa and Wisconsin...

 

[StallmanCurse]

Sean Lee

Broke Kirk's heart.

 

[NevadaHawk]

Gale Sayers

 

[Hicksy87]

Mark Ingram

 

[TheCDiggity]

Wasn't tevin Coleman close to going to iowa?

 

[ltsimmer]

There was a Byers ( 5 star offensive line?) kid from Colorado went to USC with Iowa coming in 2nd. Just going off memory

 

[Niko13]

Roger Craig via almost transferring out of Nebby
John Clay
Cyrus Koundjio

 

[STL Hawk I]

Trent Green in the late 80's. Took Chuck Hartlieb's little brother instead........

 

[Broadhead81]

James White I believe was down to Iowa and Wisconsin...

This one stung, especially in hindsight. I think we had offers out to him and De'Andre Johnson. Johnson jumped on the offer with his ACL injury. Don't know if we were still in play for White at that point or if we told him we were "full".

 

[destewart]

If memory serves Hayden decided the offer between Brees and Matt Sherman.

You are mistaken!

 

[cm8124]

This one stung, especially in hindsight. I think we had offers out to him and De'Andre Johnson. Johnson jumped on the offer with his ACL injury. Don't know if we were still in play for White at that point or if we told him we were "full".

Yeah followed by Gordon decommitting and choosing the stinkin’ Badgers that really hurt us... Thanks to our misfortunes Wisconsin created a good RB honeyhole up in Madison.

 

[TCOOL]

Kozan

 

[cleotishaywood]

Juan Dixon.....

 

[kyle23]

Crabtree would have looked great in black and gold.

He sure as shit wouldn’t have won 2 Biletnikoff awards at Iowa. That Texas Tech offense was perfect for him to develop and excel in.

 

[Niko13]

Kozan

Didn’t he chose Iowa but his mom was some religious wacko and more or less forced him to go to Auburn because it was a Bible Belt school?

 

[mvhomerl]

Didn’t he chose Iowa but his mom was some religious wacko and more or less forced him to go to Auburn because it was a Bible Belt school?

"religious wacko" Way to do the board proud!

 

[funnyfletcher]

Al B. Sure

 

[CaboKP]

Ted Ginn Jr

 

[funnyfletcher]

Donald Brown and Javon Ringer.