Arizona Football Recruiting: QB Grant Gunnell loses a Star
Arizona Football recruiting got a bit of bad news as their coveted commit in the 2019 class, quarterback Grant Gunnell, lost his fourth star.
Arizona Football recruiting conspiracy theorists, do your worst. Months after committing to Arizona over schools like; Ohio State, UCLA, LSU and Alabama among others, highly touted quarterback Grant Gunnell dropped from four stars to three stars.
Naturally, because Gunnell’s ranking and rating dropped, that affected the Wildcats’ recruiting class. Just prior to, the Wildcats’ had the 71st recruiting class of 2019, and now are ranked 74th according to 247Sports.
Not a major drop, but a little disappointing nonetheless.
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Most Wildcat fans are sure to not be all that pleased with the news, as it seems to add to a growing belief, that anytime a highly-regarded recruit chooses the Wildcats over some marquee programs, that recruit will naturally drop.
Hard to prove that that is indeed a true sentiment, but this does leave a few fans curious as to why this tends to happen.
Well, let’s look at it. Prior to committing to Arizona, Gunnell was a Texas A&M commit, and one of the best quarterbacks in the country, as well as one of the best players in the talent-rich state of Texas.
This past season at the uber-talented St. Pius X High School in Houston, TX, Gunnell threw for over 4,900 yards with 61 touchdowns to just six interceptions. Gunnell did this while completing 361 passes on 507 attempts (that’s a 71 percent completion rating) according to Maxpreps.
That kind of performance led him to winning the ‘Ford Player of the Year Award‘ sky was the limit! Then a few months after Kevin Sumlin was let go at A&M, Gunnell decided to re-open his recruitment.
On June 6, that’s when the unthinkable happened, Gunnell committed to the Wildcats! Well, since committing to Arizona, things have gone down hill a little for Gunnell.
He struggled over the summer in a few camps, also not making the Elite 11 cut. Naturally because of those, he slid in the rankings, and pretty significantly too.
However, dropping over 90 spots? That’s a bit much! You don’t have that kind of production in a tough league in a talent-rich state of Texas by being average. Players go through slumps, and it appears Gunnell’s been in one, but if I had to guess, he’s going to bounce back just fine and in a big way.
For now, we’re just going to have to ignore it and hope the young quarterback continues to stay healthy, improve and continue to do things like he did in 2017!
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At Zona Zealots, we would like to wish Grant the best as he enters his senior season, and hope he can bounce back in a big way! Bear Down, Arizona!