Under Armour All-American: Day 3 practice updates
ORLANDO – The Under Armour All-American Game is at 2 p.m. Sunday at Camping World Stadium. More than 100 of the nation’s top recruits are in attendance and divided up into two teams.
On3’s Jeremy Crabtree, Gerry Hamilton, Joseph Hastings, Jeremy Johnson and Charles Power are on location at Disney’s Wide World of Sports for the third day of practice and will have updates, videos, and recruiting notes throughout the session. Practice runs from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. ET Friday.
The On3 MVP of Day 1 of practice was Texas A&M wide receiver signee Evan Stewart. The On3 MVP for Day 2 of practice was Alabama offensive line signee Tyler Booker.
On3 also looks at the top recruiting storylines to follow, five questions to be answered and players to watch from the UA Game. Under Armour Game participants also shared their predictions for Friday’s CFP semifinals, Hamilton revealed his all-effort team through the first days of practice and Crabtree shared the latest recruiting intel with unsigned players like Harold Perkins, Omari Abor, Jacoby Mathews, Shemar Stewart, Devon Campbell and Jovantae Barnes.
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10:00 a.m. – Players are starting to get on the practice field for today’s session. Stanford signee Ernest Cooper was the first player on the field. – Jeremy Crabtree
10:02 a.m. – Alabama OL Tyler Booker — Thursday’s On3 practice MVP — took the field singing the lyrics to Ice Cube’s “Today was a Good Day.” He’s in a “great mood” and “ready to roll.” – Jeremy Crabtree
10:03 a.m. – Prospects are slowly pouring in. USC 2023 commit Zachariah Branch is out here as a spectator. – Joseph Hastings
10:09 a.m. – North Carolina wide receiver signee Andre Green Jr. remains out of practice again today. He’s got a slight limp on the right side of his body. – Jeremy Crabtree
10:10 a.m. – Players are in full pads today. Penn State signee Kaden Saunders is out, as he was yesterday. Alabama signee Aaron Anderson is not dressed today. – Charles Power
10:13 a.m. – UNC DL signee Travis Shaw is in full pads. He was out yesterday. – Charles Power
10:15 a.m. – 2023 Five-Star Plus+ Cormani McClain here in attendance watching teammate Sam McCall take part in Under Armour practices. – Jeremy Johnson
10:20 a.m. – Some new arrival news: Five-star CB and A&M signee Denver Harris has arrived and is practicing with Team Legends. TCU signee four-star WR Jordan Hudson has also arrived and is going through drills in full pads with Legends. – Jeremy Crabtree
10:22 a.m. – Oklahoma signee Jayden Gibson, who was injured the first day of practice, is not dressed today. – Joseph Hastings
10:23 a.m. – Virginia Tech signee Gunner Givens is dressed out. Still working at TE. – Charles Power
10:29 a.m. – The team Legends’ starting defensive line appears to be uncommitted EDGE Omari Abor, Five-Star Plus+ DL and A&M signee Walter Nolen, Georgia DL signee Bear Alexander and Louisville EDGE signee Popeye Williams. – Jeremy Crabtree.
10:35 a.m. – Since he walked on to the field at practices for the first time. A&M five-star CB signee Denver Harris has been attached at the hip with uncommitted safety Jacoby Mathews. Mathews remains a priority target for the Aggies. They duo has been in deep conversation between reps. – Jeremy Crabtree
10:39 a.m. – For the second day in a row, Five-Star Plus+ prospects Harold Perkins and Travis Hunter are working on the offensive side of the ball. Perkins is taking reps at running back, while Hunter is with the wide receiver. – Joseph Hastings
10:40 a.m. – Alabama signee Tyler Booker is giving maximum effort in walk through, showing some movement skills in running out to the boundary on screens. – Charles Power
10:41 a.m. – Texas A&M DL signee Gabe Brownlow-Dindy will be at practice tomorrow and is playing in the game. Has not been at previous practices. – Gerry Hamilton
10:42 a.m. – Tyler Booker is working at LT. LSU signee Will Campbell has slid inside to guard- we project Campbell inside long term due to his dimensions. – Charles Power
10:45 a.m. – Mizzou WR Luther Burden continues to take every rep possible. While others have dodged opportunities to go through drills and one on ones, Burden has been first in line for everything all week and he’s doing it again on Friday. – Jeremy Crabtree
10:51 a.m. – Florida State signee Sam McCall is getting taped up and looks like he’ll participate. He’s been out for most of the week so far. – Charles Power
10:55 a.m. – Indiana signee Dasan McCullough is dressed out and going through warmups after being out yesterday. – Charles Power
11:00 a.m. – Impressed with Texas signee Jaray Bledsoe’s flexibility in a specific, kind of difficult warm up drill. He can basically sit on his feet due to hip and knee flexibility. – Charles Power
11:25 a.m. – They stretched for like 30 minutes there. Finally getting back into position drills. – Jeremy Crabtree
11:29 a.m. – Branson Robinson (5-foot-11, 217 pounds) and Kaytron Allen (5-foot-11, 205 pounds) are the two biggest backs here in Orlando. Both move well at their size and are capable pass catchers. They’ve been working on out routes and wheel routes, and have yet to drop a pass thus far. – Joseph Hastings
11:30 a.m. – Omari Abor and Stanford signee Ernest Cooper are standing out among the Team Icons DL in terms of giving maximum effort in drills. – Charles Power
11:31 a.m. – Jordan Hudson learning a lot of the formations on the fly here in individual drills. The TCU signee missed the first two days of practice. – Jeremy Johnson
11:32 a.m. – Team Legends coaches raving about Jacoby Mathews: “A natural safety. Sees everything. Attacks the ball like a corner.” -Gerry Hamilton
11:33 a.m. – Ohio State signee C.J. Hicks has some of the best ball skills in hands drills among the linebackers. Not a surprise given his background as an offensive player in high school.
Notre Dame signee Jaylen Sneed looks like the best athlete among the linebackers on Team Icons. He’s a twitchy mover. – Charles Power
11:38 a.m. – Alabama DL signee Jaheim Oatis is making his presence felt during inside run drills. On back-to-back plays he split double teams and made a tackle for a loss. – Jeremy Crabtree
11:39 a.m. – Michigan DL signee Derrick Moore has also been impossible to block early on during inside run drills. He made a big tackle for a loss and his teammates hooted and hollered in celebration. He did the same thing on the next rep. – Jeremy Crabtree
11:40 a.m. – Georgia signee Jalon Walker making back to back plays during inside run drills. – Jeremy Johnson
11:41 a.m. – Penn State OL signee Drew Shelton just had a devastating pull block on a running play to the left. He delivered a devastating blow and opened up a big hole for the running back. – Jeremy Crabtree
11:42 a.m. – RB Jovantae Barnes bounces off a few tackles and scores. – Jeremy Johnson
11:43 a.m. – Clemson signee Antonio Williams continues to route up the defensive backs for Team Icons. He just beat Alabama signee Trequon Fegans.
TCU signee Jordan Hudson is looking very good in his first day. He’s beaten Denver Harris and Zion Branch in 1-on-1’s so far. He put a filthy double move on Branch. – Charles Power
11:44 a.m. – TCU WR signee Jordan Hudson already turning heads in 1v1s . Coaches giving praise. Natural WR. Terrific feet, natural plucker – Gerry Hamilton
11:45 a.m. – Five-star and Texas signee Kelvin Banks Jr. just pushed Texas DL signee Justice Finkley five yards down the field on a off tackle play to the right. Banks led the pile all the way to the sideline to finish the play off. – Jeremy Crabtree
11:46 a.m. – C.J. Hicks and Jaylen Sneed along with Walter Nolen making running difficult this period. – Jeremy Johnson
11:50 a.m. – Fantastic one handed catch from Alabama signee Shazz Preston in 1-on-1’s. Tight coverage from Michigan signee Keon Sabb and Preston came down with it in the end zone. – Charles Power
11:51 a.m. – Evan Stewart gets loose and scores in a one on one drill. – Jeremy Johnson
11:52 a.m. – George Pettaway was a surprising standout performer in the first session of one-on-ones. In his first rep that we saw, Pettaway ran an out route against top-ranked safety Jacoby Mathews and caught it near the sidelines. He also had another rep where he hauled in a deep ball 30 yards away from where his route started. – Joseph Hastings
11:53 a.m. – Five-Star Plus+ and A&M bound WR Evan Stewart continues to be the star of the show for Team Icons. He toasted Sherrod Covil on a post rout. He came back the next rep and beat Bryan Allen Jr. on a corner route. Alabama bound WR Shazz Preston also has a sweet one-handed grab during one-on-ones. – Jeremy Crabtree
11:54 a.m. – Clemson signee Adam Randall beats Georgia signee Daylen Everette on a double move. Everette interferes to stop a would-be touchdown. – Charles Power
11:55 a.m. – Omari Abor beats UNC signee Zach Rice in 1-on-1’s. – Charles Power
11:56 a.m. – Michigan signee Keon Sabb just drew praise from one of the coaches for a close that he made on a deep ball thrown to Shazz Preston. – Joseph Hastings
11:57 a.m. – Travis Hunter is in the house. The On3 Consensus No. 1 player and Jackson State signee just baited the quarterback and receiver into throwing a pass over the middle. He made up ground, broke on the pass and picked it off. It would have easily been a pick six. – Jeremy Crabtree
11:58 a.m. – Tyler Booker completely stoned Derrick Moore in Team Icons 1-on-1’s – Gerry Hamilton
11:59 a.m. – Texas signee Jaray Bledsoe has the quickest first step of an any DT in the game. Explosive natural bend and athleticism. – Gerry Hamilton
12:00 p.m. – Texas A&M signee Chris Marshall with a nice snag across the middle. He lets the secondary know ‘all he needs to do is touch it a little bit!’ – Jeremy Johnson
12:01 p.m. – Travis Hunter with a PBU. He tells the offense. “I’m on my A game today! Y’all better find someone else to play with!” – Jeremy Johnson
12:03 p.m. – Good 1-on-1 sequence from Stanford signee Ernest Cooper beating UNC signee Zach Rice on back to back reps. – Charles Power
12:04 p.m. – Alabama signee Jihaad Campbell is rushing the passer in 1-on-1’s and looks fantastic. – Charles Power
12:04 p.m. – An IMG coach that is part of the UA Game this week on Jihaad Campbell: “For an OLB, he can cover anybody. Played corner in last game. He’s long. Rugged kid . Three down player.” – Gerry Hamilton
12:05 p.m. – Alabama signee Jeremiah Alexander just put together an impressive spin move to win a rep against PJ Williams. – Joseph Hastings
12:12 p.m. – Horns vs. Aggies. Five-Star Plus+ DL and A&M bound Walter Nolen had some great one-on-one battles with Texas four-star OL signee Neto Umeozulu. Nolen won the first rep with a bull rush that would have pushed Umeozulu into the quarterback’s face. Umeozulu then won the rematch with a tremendous pass pro set that earned high praise from the offensive line coaches. For what it’s worth Nolen did win two other reps against Sheridan Wilson in the 5 minutes that I was watching. Nolen was working hard. – Jeremy Crabtree
12:24 p.m. – Texas A&M safety signee Bryce Anderson was taking some reps at QB for Team Legends. He may get some work as a wildcat QB in the game. Anderson is a top sprinter and former HS QB, so it shouldn’t be a huge transition. – Charles Power
12:26 p.m. – Spoke with Team Legends DBs coach Don Cox. The first player Cox brought up in our conversation was future USC Trojan Zion Branch. Cox said that Branch is the “real deal” and that he’ll just need to put on a few more pounds before getting to the next level.
Told me that Texas A&M signee Denver Harris is the “total package.” Praised him for his athleticism and how he plays the ball. Only thing Harris will need to work on is relying a little more on his fundamentals instead of his athleticism, but Cox says he has everything a team looking for in a corner. If he relies more on those fundamentals, Cox believes he’ll be an “instant starter” with the Aggies.
As for top-ranked safety Jacoby Mathews, Cox described him as a natural. Said that a team will be able to play him anywhere in the secondary and that Matthews’ versatility is what stood out to him. – Joseph Hastings
12:35 p.m. – Jacoby Matthews with a pick-six in 11-on-11. He’s been the best safety here through two days. – Charles Power
12:36 p.m. – UNC commit George Pettaway gets deep in a wheel route for a TD. He beat South Carolina signee Stone Blanton on the play. – Charles Power
12:38 p.m. – Clemson wide receiver commit Antonio Williams is probably the best route runner here. But he’s also had a few go through his hands.
Williams beats Texas A&M signee Bryce Anderson on a deep ball – Charles Power
12:39 p.m. – Auburn signee Holden Geriner looks comfortable. Has attacked the defense deep a few times already in this period. – Jeremy Johnson
12:40 p.m. – Chris Marshall just missed Clemson Jeadyn Lukus. He completed the play with the Griddy Dance made famous by LSU stars Justin Jefferson and Jamar Chase. – Jeremy Johnson
12:40 p.m. – Ohio State signee C.J. Hicks blows up a tunnel screen. – Charles Power
12:41 p.m. – Notre Dame signee Steve Angeli had a couple of overthrows on some short passes, but bounced back with a perfectly placed throw to Antonio Williams down the sideline. – Joseph Hastings
12:42 p.m. – Team Legends starting OL
76 – Kelvin Banks Jr. – A&M
55 – Kam Dewberry – A&M
70 – Sheridan Wilson – Texas Tech
52 – Devon Campbell
50 – Zach Rice – North Carolina
Notre Dame signee Steve Angeli took the starting QB reps. – Jeremy Crabtree
12:43 p.m. – Got to love the effort by Georgia signee Bear Alexander. There was a mishandled snap and the ball dropped the ground, followed by Alexander diving on to the ground and recovering it. – Joseph Hastings
12:44 p.m. – Undecided four-star safety Jacoby Mathews celebrated after an INT with an epic slam on the turnover “dunk bucket.” He was alway rewarded with a turnover chain. Bear Alexander also got a turn to slam the ball home after recovering a fumble. Mathews definitely got more air on his dunk. – Jeremy Crabtree
12:45 p.m. – Oklahoma signee Jayden Gibson says the best DB he faced before his injury was Georgia signee Daylen Everette. He says the best receiver title is shared with Evan Stewart, Luther Burden and Chris Marshall right now. “All three are snapping.” – Jeremy Johnson
12:46 p.m. – Alabama signee Jeremiah Alexander has been disruptive in 11-on-11. Just got in the backfield and forced a fumble. – Charles Power
12:48 p.m. – EDGE Jeremiah Alexander gets his turn to slam home the ball after he recovers a fumble. Alexander went with the windmill between his legs dunk on the “turnover dunk bucket.” He celebrated the scoop and score with almost the entire defense. – Jeremy Crabtree
12:51 p.m. – Texas A&M signee Conner Weigman connects on a long touchdown pass. – Jeremy Johnson
12:52 p.m. – Walter Nolen gets in the backfield in 11-on-11. May have been a sack in a real game.
Antonio Williams with another TD, this time on OU signee Robert Spears-Jennings. – Charles Power
12:52 p.m. – Walter Nolen has been disruptive all week. Says he’s down to about 315-320. That’s down from his previous 345 pounds. – Jeremy Johnson
12:54 p.m. – In 11-on-11s, Team Legends has been getting after it defensively. Jeremiah Alexander kicked it off by stripping Vanderbilt QB signee AJ Swann. Bear Alexander recovered a fumble after a mishandled snap, and Jeremiah followed up a few plays later by recovering a stripped fumble off QB Steve Angeli. – Joseph Hastings
12:55 p.m. – Georgia LB signee Jalon Walker with a nice stick on Bama signee Emmanuel Henderson. – Charles Power
12:59 p.m. – Buckeyes linebacker C.J. Hicks delivered a devastating hit, but paid the price for it. He’s got a little bit of a stinger in his back, and is going to take off his pads after seeing a trainer. – Joseph Hastings
1:00 p.m. – Clemson signee Jeadyn Lukus has his pads off and is heading to the back now. – Joseph Hastings
1:02 p.m. – Good coverage from Clemson safety signee Sherrod Covil on Alabama signee Shazz Preston in the corner of the endzone. – Charles Power
1:03 p.m. – C.J. Hicks looks done for today. Heading to locker room to take off pads.
Jeadyn Lukus is also heading to locker room. – Jeremy Johnson
1:05 p.m. – Alabama nose tackle signee Jaheim Oatis just tried a field goal. It was wide right. He actually was the kickoff specialist for his high school team- at 6’4 390 pounds – Charles Power
1:12 p.m. – They spent last 20 minutes working on special teams and it appears we’re done for the practice. – Jeremy Crabtree
1:27 p.m. – Travis Hunter impresses the crowd by catching four one-handed catches in a row. – Charles Power