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LB Curtis Grant (National Champion)

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Grant named Parade All-American
By Eric Kolenich
Published: January 31, 2011

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Credit: EVA RUSSO/TIMES-DISPATCH
Hermitage High School senior linebacker Curtis Grant (right) does drills with senior Kenneth Wagstaff during team drills last summer.

Hermitage senior Curtis Grant recently was named an All-American by Parade Magazine. The magazine will publish its All-America high school football team Feb. 6.

The Times-Dispatch named Grant (6-3, 222 pounds) the defensive player of the year the past two years. He was named All-Metro and all-state this season.

Grant had 134 tackles this year, leading Hermitage to the state championship game where the Panthers lost 26-7 to Battlefield.

Grant has yet to announce which college he will attend. He is expected to make his decision by Wednesday, national signing day. His finalists are Virginia, North Carolina, Florida and Ohio State.
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Virginia LB Curtis Grant could be a Signing Day surprise for Ohio State

Published: Monday, January 31, 2011, 10:22 PM Updated: Monday, January 31, 2011, 10:24 PM

By Doug Lesmerises, The Plain Dealer

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Akron St. Vincent-St. Mary defensive back Doran Grant is a typical Ohio State football recruit -- one of the best players in the state who announced his decision to be a Buckeye weeks ago.
Many others among the Buckeyes' 22 oral commitments made their choices known months ago. National Signing Day on Wednesday, when they'll officially become future Buckeyes, doesn't come with much intrigue.
"It's still a big deal, because Signing Day can be tricky," Grant said Monday. "You never know. I could say I'll go play here, but you never know ... Nah, I'm just kidding."
Grant laughed. The four-star defensive back knows he's coming to Columbus. Like a lot of Ohio State fans, he knows what he wants added to this Class of 2011 in the next two days -- Glenville offensive lineman Aundrey Walker and Virginia linebacker Curtis Grant.
Walker is expected to be another typical OSU recruit -- a Tarblooder who waits until late in the process to choose Ohio State. But the other Grant could be a most unusual prospect -- a five-star player who turns Signing Day into a real celebration for OSU fans with a drama-filled declaration that sends him to play for Jim Tressel.
Rivals.com national recruiting analysts Mike Farrell is one of several recruiting experts who believes Grant will pick the Buckeyes over North Carolina, Florida and Virginia when he announces his choice at a news conference Wednesday afternoon.
"This kid looks like a junior in college already and he plays like a junior in college already. He runs so fast from sideline to sideline, he closes like crazy," Farrell said. "If he goes there, he'd probably be the most athletic linebacker they've recruited over the last decade."
Rivals has the 6-3, 222-pound Grant as the overall No. 2 recruit in this class. Scout has Grant ranked as the No. 19 player. Either way, he'd become the highest-rated recruit in the Ohio State class for both services, and would be a big boost at the position, considering Trey DePriest and Jordan Hicks, the top-rated Ohio linebackers the last two years, did not choose the Buckeyes.
Rivals has Ohio State with the No. 11 overall class; Scout says it's No. 4. But adding Grant, a five-star player, and Walker, a four-star player, would lift both rankings.
"If they do that, that puts them in contention for the No. 1 class," said Scott Kennedy, a national analyst for Scout.com. "Ohio State is selecting more than recruiting the past few years."
Kennedy means that Ohio State, with Michigan, Notre Dame and Penn State falling back on the recruiting trail, is the top choice for many of the best players in the Midwest, and the Buckeyes often can choose from among many interested prospects. But this would be different.
Over the last five years, the only Buckeye to announce on Signing Day was safety Orhian Johnson, a three-star recruit, in 2008. Terrelle Pryor, as you'll remember, announced no choice on Signing Day that year but a month later signed with the Buckeyes.
Dipping into Virginia for a player that a year ago Farrell was sure would wind up at Virginia Tech or an SEC school would be a major coup. The departure of Urban Meyer at Florida certainly helped Ohio State's cause.
If it happens Wednesday, Doran Grant would be happy to add another Grant to the class.
"Hey," he said, "I'll be jumping for joy."
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LB Curtis Grant - Like Ron Burgundy, Grant is kind of a big deal. It has been down to Ohio State, Florida, U.Va. and North Carolina for a while. Look, just the mere fact he's still considering U.Va. at this late hour is pretty incredible. The fact is he really is struggling with this choice, or he would've already pulled the trigger. He's not returning phone calls anymore and has gone underground. It stands to reason he's about burned out with the process, so if he'd already reached a decision, he'd have let the world know by this point. Still think he's headed out-of-state, and I still believe it's going to be Ohio State or Florida. We'll hear his decision on Wednesday.
PREDICTION: Ohio State
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Where does Ohio State stand with Curtis Grant?
Grant is arguably the biggest recruit left on Ohio State's board and one of the biggest in the nation, period. He's ranked as the #2 overall recruit in the country by Rivals and has offers from literally every program in America. He's been linked to almost as many programs as he has offers, but much of his recruitment has centered around the Florida Gators. When Urban Meyer left, it opened up an opportunity for others to jump in, and jump in they did.
Since Meyer's retirement, Grant has taken four official visits to his four final suitors, Ohio State, Florida, Virginia, and UNC. According to the UNC Scout site, Curtis Grant informed UNC commit Norkeithus Otis that he was down to two schools on his official visit this past weekend, Ohio State and UNC.
This jives with everything the two recruiting analysts closest to Grant have heard. Mike Farrell and Laura McKeeman both have built a rapport with Grant over the past year, and they are both projecting him to the Buckeyes.
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So will Grant be a Buckeye? Our projections after the jump.

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Cliff says: Florida has been out of it for awhile now, Virginia was never in it, & North Carolina is still under a dark cloud brought on by the NCAA investigation into Marvin Austin. Due to those factors along with the great rapport he's built with Coach Tressel, Grant picks the Buckeyes on Signing Day.
Tyler says: The only consistent team in Curtis Grant's ever changing top two, the Buckeyes and Jim Tressel land the five star stud from Virginia and steal yet another top linebacker from Will Muschamp and the Gators.
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