A couple verbals for the football team over the weekend. Twin brothers Chris and Demitrius Davis.
Chris Davis (5-9, 185 pounds) chose the Panthers over offers from Arkansas, Baylor, Boise State, Cincinnati, Purdue, Oregon State, Iowa, UCLA and West Virginia.
Demitrious Davis (5-10, 183) had many of the same offers as his brother and also had an offer from Oregon.
Both players are projected to be slot receivers in Graham’s offense.
Both are really speedy players on the field. The ESPN.com profiles on both (Insider subs) emphasize two things: how fast they are and that they are not tall.
Chris Davis:
Davis is an undersized, quicker than fast player as a scatback/slot receiver and cornerback on defense. … Davis shows some redeeming traits and shows good passion and competitive demeanor. Size will always limit him to some degree, but when he positions himself and keeps the ball in front of him on defense he is an effective prospect.
And Demitrius Davis:
He is dramatically undersized or he would be a national recruit as both an ATH and dual-threat QB because he throws the ball surprisingly well. He is a short prospect, but can flat out run. He is a blur of an athlete in space. Displays rapid acceleration, supreme top end speed and moves like a jack rabbit laterally. He has a low center of gravity, can jump cut, shows excellent vision with sharp cuts to exploit the cutback lane. He is the ideal zone runner and could be a spread offense utility back. He explodes through tiny creases in-line and once at the second level he is a homerun threat that can take it the distance. … Size may be a limitation and you know it up front.
It may also help Pitt in the recruitment of their teammate, running back William Mahone. But the announcement yesterday was about the Davis boys.
Demitrious and Chris Davis of Fitch High School in Austintown, Ohio, said they told Pitt coach Todd Graham two weeks ago that they chose the Panthers over 20 other scholarship offers. The Class of 2012 recruits made the announcement Sunday to a crowd of 100 family and friends in Austintown.
They made the announcement after getting back from a weekend Pitt passing camp. There may be some questions about their memory of things.
“Pitt seems like the place we want to be,” he said. “The atmosphere at the spring game, everything.”
Reminded that it rained most of the day during Pitt’s spring game in April at Heinz Field, Chris Davis said, “It turned out to be a good day.”
I’ll concede that the late afternoon and evening was rather pleasant.
The schools recruiting them, makes these commits a lot more positive than the stars next to their name. Not only are they attractive to a lot of programs, their abilities seem to make them a great fit for the offense Graham wants to run at Pitt.
I would love to see one or two offensive linemen show up on the recruting radar soon however. Take a look at our current depth chart and you’ll see that we’re in deep do do in two years on the “O” line if we don’t load up there real fast, like now! Speed is good but last time that I checked you still have to block to open a hole for all those speed guys to run through.
Don’t those guys want to go somewhere when they can line up and run the ball 25-30+ times? Not in an offense that throws the ball to 11 different receivers and four different backs every game?
Tulsa’s top RB had 100 less carries than the QB and averaged 7 carries a game. That is going to be a TOUGH sell to the top back to come out of PA in a long time. Am I missing something?
Heck, even Stevens-Howlings continues to make a positive impact in the NFL!