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CB Doran Grant (Official Thread)

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Posted: April 13, 2010
Recruiting
Two offered prospects visit U-M
BY JOSH HELMHOLDT
FREE PRESS SPECIAL WRITER

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Saturday?s spring game is expected to be part of the big recruiting visit weekend of the spring for Michigan, but two class of 2011 prospects who hold scholarship offers made it to Ann Arbor a week early to see the Wolverines practice.

Akron (Ohio) St. Vincent-St. Mary's Doran Grant was one of those prospects who visited Michigan last weekend.

He is a 5-10, 171-pound cornerback with offers from the likes of Cal, Georgia, LSU, Michigan State, Notre Dame, Ohio State, Oklahoma and USC. Michigan sent its offer to Grant on the first day juniors were allowed to receive official offers this past September.

Grant has made frequent visits to Michigan for home games and summer camps. This past weekend was his sixth time on the Ann Arbor campus. He attended the Wolverines? spring practice on Friday and was able to evaluate their depth at the cornerback position.

"I see a chance for me to play and that is very important because I want to see the field quick and make an impact my true freshman year," Grant said.

Grant named Ohio State his leader earlier this spring, and they are followed by Michigan State in the second spot. Grant?s father, Ted Jones, played wide receiver for the Spartans in the 1980s and he was already familiar with their program before becoming a recruit.

Grant followed up his visit to Michigan with a drive up the road to East Lansing to see the Spartans practice on Saturday.

Before Grant made his most recent visit to Michigan, the Wolverines were among his top five schools, but last weekend?s trip solidified them as the No. 3 school on his list. He plans to make many more on-campus visits to various college programs and decide sometime later in the process.
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Two offered prospects visit U-M | freep.com | Detroit Free Press
 
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In the end i like the Buckeye chances with grant for the following reasons;

1. Track record of producing NFL DB's
2. Close to home
3. Depth chart and defensive scheme
4. Top 5 program annually puts him in the spotlight each week.

Grant is a top 3 CB prospect in the country if not #1. Athleticism is off the charts. Braxton miller may be their #1 target but Grant is 1B IMHO.
 
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Not sure when that interview was actually done. It was published on Wednesday, but Doran says he'll try to make it to the spring game if he doesn't have a track meet that weekend. I'd imagine he would know something like that 3 days beforehand. So this could be an old interview that is just being recycled now, and may very well have been done before his UM visit. And not to be too critical of the article, but it's also very loaded. Like the very last line of the Q&A, where the writer has the "Buckeye nation" part in parenthesis before Doran says "stay tuned for February 2nd!" is probably unnecessarily misleading. I'm not saying he won't be a Buckeye, because I believe he's pretty much made up his mind, but the article probably doesn't need to be putting words in his mouth just yet.
 
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