#1 QB Matt McIntosh
Evansville, IN (F.J. Reitz)
6'2" 185 lbs
40 time: 4.7
Vertical: 37"

Other offers: Illinois State, Southern Illinois

Rivals Profile: 2-stars, 5.3
Scout Profile: 2-stars
ESPN Profile: 2-stars, 68, #143 QB

Reitz QB McIntosh commits to Northern Illinois University (Evansville Courier)
McIntosh getting offers (Evansville Courier)

Youtube



#2 ILB Boomer Mays
Eudora, KS (Eudora)
6'1" 225 lbs
40 time: 4.72 secs
Shuttle: 4.49 secs

Rivals Profile: 2-stars, 5.4
Scout Profile: 2-stars
ESPN Profile: 2-stars, 70, #77 ILB

Kohl's Long Snappers National Rankings: #5 LS

Youtube



#3 DE Cameron Clinton-Earl
Sussex, WI (Hamilton)
6'2" 242 lbs

Rivals Profile: 2-stars, 5.4
Scout Profile: NR
WSN: #5 DL, #19 player in WI

Clinton-Earl nets offer, talks Badger Camp (WSN)
One Clinton-Earl brother commits, the other looking for offers (WSN)
Clinton-Earl commits to the Huskies (HuskieWire)

Youtube



#4 S Rasheen Lemon
Hillside, IL (Proviso West)
6'2" 195 lbs
40 time: 4.56 secs
Shuttle: 4.53 secs

Rivals Profile: 2-stars, 5.4
Scout Profile: NR
ESPN Profile: NR

Youtube



#5 RB Jamal Womble
Hutchinson, KS (Hutchinson C.C.)
Sierra Vista, AZ (Buena)
5'10" 230 lbs (or 6'0" 242)

Other offers: Cincinnati, Minnesota, Texas A&M, Pitt, Hawaii, Memphis, UNLV

Offers out of HS: North Carolina (verbal), Arizona State, Boston College, Louisville, Nebraska, South Carolina, Wisconsin, Purdue

North Carolina Profile

Rivals Profile: 3-stars, 5.6, #4 JUCO RB, #42 JUCO
Scout Profile: 3-stars
ESPN Profile: NR

Rivals Profile (2008): 4-stars, 5.8, #14 RB, #6 player in AZ
Scout Profile (2008): 4-stars, #13 RB
ESPN Profile (2008): 78, #53 RB

Youtube: [1] [2]

#6 WR/KR/PR Tommylee Lewis
West Palm Beach, FL (Dwyer)
5'8" 160 lbs
40 time: 4.45 secs

Rivals Profile: 2-stars, 5.3
Scout Profile: NR
ESPN Profile: NR

Youtube: [1] [2]



#7 TE Devonte Majors
O'Fallon, MO (Fort Zumwalt West)
6'2" 221 lbs

Other offers: Eastern Michigan

Rivals Profile: 3-stars, 5.5, #19 player in MO
Scout Profile: 2-stars, #265 WR

Youtube: [1] [2]



#8 C Andrew Ness
St. Louis, MO (Christian Brothers College High)
6'4" 298 lbs
Bench Reps: 18
Shuttle: 5
Vertical: 23"
GPA: 3.43
ACT: 24

Other offers: EMU, Rice, SMU, Ball State

Rivals Profile: 3-stars, #13 player in MO
Scout Profile: 2-stars, #30 C
ESPN Profile: 2-stars, 68, #35 C

Youtube: [1] [2] [3]



#9 MLB Jason Meehan
Webster Groves, MO (Webster Groves)
6'3" 225 lbs
40 time: 4.7 secs

Rivals Profile: 3-stars, 5.5, #18 player in MO
Scout Profile: 2-stars, #59 MLB
ESPN Profile: 2-stars, 70, #81 ILB

Youtube [1] [2] [3]

Webster Groves' Meehan commits to N. Illinois



#10 K Taylor Zalewski
Orland Park, IL (Sandberg)
6'2" 190 lbs

Rivals Profile: 2-stars, 5.2
Scout Profile: 2-stars
ESPN Profile: 3-stars, 77, #15 K

Kohl's Kickers National Rankings: #5 K

Commit Status for Taylor Zalewski
Taylor Zalewski shines at Kohl's Midwest Kicking Camp

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#11 OLB Dominic Schultz
Port Huron, MI (Port Huron)
5'11" 194 lbs
Shuttle: 4.47 secs
Vertical: 32"

Rivals Profile: NR

Youtube: [1] [2]



#12 OT Matt Killian
Saint Charles, MO (Francis Howell School)
6'6" 275 lbs

Other offers: Tulane

Rivals Profile: 2-stars, 5.5, #20 player in MO
Scout Profile: 3-stars, #116 OT
ESPN: 2-stars, 68, #187 OT

Youtube: [1] [2] [3] [4]



#13 OG Aidan Conlon
Homewood, IL (Homewood-Flossmoor)
6'4" 285 lbs

Rivals Profile: NR
ESPN Profile: NR



#14 S Khrambel Garland
Fort Lauderdale, FL (St. Thomas Aquinas)
6'1" 185 lbs

Other offers: Eastern Michigan, Louisville, Rutgers, Toledo, Western Michigan

Rivals Profile: 2-stars, 5.3
Scout Profile: NR
ESPN Profile: NR

Youtube



#15 WR/CB Wonderful Terry
Fort Pierce, FL (Westwood)
5'10" 160 lbs

Other offers: Buffalo

Rivals Profile: 2-stars, 5.3
Scout Profile: 3-stars, #120 CB
ESPN Profile: NR

Youtube: [1] [2] [3]



#16 WR A.J. Sebastiano
Coconut Creek, FL (North Broward)
6'1" 185 lbs
40 time: 4.6 secs

Other offers: Florida Atlantic

Rivals Profile: 3-stars, 5.6
Scout Profile: 2-stars
ESPN Profile: 3-stars, 76, #118 WR

Youtube: [1] [2] [3]



#17 K/P Tyler Wedel
McFarland, WI (McFarland)
6'1" 175 lbs

ESPN Profile: 3-stars, 75, #30 K

Kohl's Kickers National Rankings: #16 K
Kohl's Punters National Rankings: #22 P

Youtube: [1] [2] [3] [4]

Wedel to sign with Northern Illinois

#18 TE Jimmy Kapolnek
Chicago, IL (St. Patrick)
6'3" 220 lbs

Youtube: [1]

#19 QB Devin Rose
Overland Park, KS (Blue Valley West)
6'1" 180 lbs

ESPN Profile: NR

Youtube: [1] [2]

QB Matt McIntosh Verbals Northern from the Evansville Courier Press

Matt McIntosh, who led Reitz High School to the Class 4A state football championship and a 15-0 record last fall, made an oral commitment on Wednesday to play for Northern Illinois University, which has earned NCAA Division I bowl berths the past two seasons.

“It’s a great program,” McIntosh said. “I love the coaches and I like the kids. (NIU coach Jerry Kill) is a great guy. He is one of the main reasons I went there.”

McIntosh, a 6-foot-2, 185-pound quarterback who is entering his senior season with the Panthers, was also offered scholarships by Southern Illinois University and Illinois State.

As a junior, he completed 143 of 220 passes, a 65.0 percentage, for 2,260 yards and 26 touchdowns. He had five intercepted. McIntosh also ran for 1,473 yards and 19 scores.

He cannot sign a binding national letter of intent until the February signing period.

Complete details will be available in Thursday’s Courier & Press.

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Comments » 4 from the Evansville locals


thewatcher writes:

Great young man...great family. Now that he has verbally committed, he can relax and enjoy his senior year without the constant hassles and turmoil a decision like this can create.

Good program, looks like a decent start. When they committ this early and they're over a year away from joining the program, hard to tell what they'll look like by then. Kid could have some terrible injury, or ont he opposite side of things have an amazing year, maybe grow a little, and all of the sudden be picking up big ten offers.

(06-23-2010 10:18 PM)17Huskies Wrote:  have an amazing year, maybe grow a little, and all of the sudden be picking up big ten offers.

Let's hope that that's the case. Never very encouraging when we are recruiting guys who only have offers from ISU and SIU...especially when it's at the QB position. Hopefully he has a great 2010 season and continues to improve.

Hey I'm just glad we are finally on the board with a committ. QB is a position of need we absolutely have to fill this year with 3 upperclassmen in Harnish, Grady, and Weston. This is a good start and a good fit. We really need to get going on the RB position though.

I smell another Miles Osei here if the kid bulks up a little and has a good year. Indiana, or Purdue come calling and woosh he is gone.

(06-24-2010 01:16 PM)niuco90 Wrote:  I smell another Miles Osei here if the kid bulks up a little and has a good year. Indiana, or Purdue come calling and woosh he is gone.

why not look at it in a positive light and assume he will be a Huskie.

(06-24-2010 08:54 AM)armour248 Wrote:  Never very encouraging when we are recruiting guys who only have offers from ISU and SIU...especially when it's at the QB position.

Couldn't agree more.

(06-24-2010 01:16 PM)niuco90 Wrote:  I smell another Miles Osei here if the kid bulks up a little and has a good year. Indiana, or Purdue come calling and woosh he is gone.

Don't assume that Big Ten teams will poach every QB NIU recruits. At least Osei had multiple MAC offers. Indiana or Purdue won't exactly be fighting to grab a QB that had been offered by SIU and ISU.

(06-24-2010 04:20 PM)DiehardHuskie Wrote:  

(06-24-2010 08:54 AM)armour248 Wrote:  Never very encouraging when we are recruiting guys who only have offers from ISU and SIU...especially when it's at the QB position.

Couldn't agree more.

Total bull.... We are not grabbing 4 or 5 star type players. I could give a **** who offers. ND took the QB from Lake Forest last year and I feel Western Mich got a better QB (kid from Marian Catholic).

You can see alot just by watching,(Yogi) this QB has the best passing mechanics Kill has signed. (did not get a good look at Wesson)...he has better mechanics than Harnish,Lynch,Grady, & Hill coming out of HS aqnd he has good measurables.

(06-24-2010 08:15 PM)NIU05 Wrote:  

(06-24-2010 04:20 PM)DiehardHuskie Wrote:  

(06-24-2010 08:54 AM)armour248 Wrote:  Never very encouraging when we are recruiting guys who only have offers from ISU and SIU...especially when it's at the QB position.

Couldn't agree more.

Total bull.... We are not grabbing 4 or 5 star type players. I could give a **** who offers. ND took the QB from Lake Forest last year and I feel Western Mich got a better QB (kid from Marian Catholic).

You can see alot just by watching,(Yogi) this QB has the best passing mechanics Kill has signed. (did not get a good look at Wesson)...he has better mechanics than Harnish,Lynch,Grady, & Hill coming out of HS aqnd he has good measurables.

A head coach should never select a kid by who is offering him. If the coach thinks he can play, you get him. If we followed a philosophy of considering who the other offers are, we would have never taken Michael Turner, PJ, Rein Diem, etc etc etc.

Judging a kid by his offers implies that recruiting is a perfectly efficient process when it clearly is not. There are tons of successful quarterbacks who were lightly recruited, including Scott Tolzien at Wisconsin and Kirk Cousins at Michigan State to name two. Or take some of the lightly recruited guys on our team: Chad Spann, Jason Schepler, Willie Clark, Trevor Olson, Joe Pawlak, Sean Progar, Alan Baxter, Pat Schiller, Tyrone Clark, Mike Krause, Tracy Wilson. These guys had few offers or none at all and they're pretty good. Jordan Lynch is another one. He hasn't played in a game yet but he sure passed the eyeball test in spring camp. I trust the coaches in their evaluations.

(06-25-2010 10:47 AM)NIU1981 Wrote:  Judging a kid by his offers implies that recruiting is a perfectly efficient process when it clearly is not. There are tons of successful quarterbacks who were lightly recruited, including Scott Tolzien at Wisconsin and Kirk Cousins at Michigan State to name two. Or take some of the lightly recruited guys on our team: Chad Spann, Jason Schepler, Willie Clark, Trevor Olson, Joe Pawlak, Sean Progar, Alan Baxter, Pat Schiller, Tyrone Clark, Mike Krause, Tracy Wilson. These guys had few offers or none at all and they're pretty good. Jordan Lynch is another one. He hasn't played in a game yet but he sure passed the eyeball test in spring camp. I trust the coaches in their evaluations.

Bruce Gradkowski is another HS QB that was only lightly recruited and only had Division I offers for B-ball.

(06-25-2010 11:26 AM)Boca Rocket Wrote:  

(06-25-2010 10:47 AM)NIU1981 Wrote:  Judging a kid by his offers implies that recruiting is a perfectly efficient process when it clearly is not. There are tons of successful quarterbacks who were lightly recruited, including Scott Tolzien at Wisconsin and Kirk Cousins at Michigan State to name two. Or take some of the lightly recruited guys on our team: Chad Spann, Jason Schepler, Willie Clark, Trevor Olson, Joe Pawlak, Sean Progar, Alan Baxter, Pat Schiller, Tyrone Clark, Mike Krause, Tracy Wilson. These guys had few offers or none at all and they're pretty good. Jordan Lynch is another one. He hasn't played in a game yet but he sure passed the eyeball test in spring camp. I trust the coaches in their evaluations.

Bruce Gradkowski is another HS QB that was only lightly recruited and only had Division I offers for B-ball.

The same idiots who are upset that he only had FCS offers will be saying what a great pick up it was when the kid has a great year and is labeled a *** recruit. It just never stops.

(06-25-2010 03:06 PM)HuskieJ Wrote:  

(06-25-2010 11:26 AM)Boca Rocket Wrote:  

(06-25-2010 10:47 AM)NIU1981 Wrote:  Judging a kid by his offers implies that recruiting is a perfectly efficient process when it clearly is not. There are tons of successful quarterbacks who were lightly recruited, including Scott Tolzien at Wisconsin and Kirk Cousins at Michigan State to name two. Or take some of the lightly recruited guys on our team: Chad Spann, Jason Schepler, Willie Clark, Trevor Olson, Joe Pawlak, Sean Progar, Alan Baxter, Pat Schiller, Tyrone Clark, Mike Krause, Tracy Wilson. These guys had few offers or none at all and they're pretty good. Jordan Lynch is another one. He hasn't played in a game yet but he sure passed the eyeball test in spring camp. I trust the coaches in their evaluations.

Bruce Gradkowski is another HS QB that was only lightly recruited and only had Division I offers for B-ball.

The same idiots who are upset that he only had FCS offers will be saying what a great pick up it was when the kid has a great year and is labeled a *** recruit. It just never stops.

its an entertaining thing to do, but in the end ,it the coaches who have the film, the personnel contact, references and their experience at their disposal. It only counts on what you have =on signing day

(06-25-2010 03:06 PM)HuskieJ Wrote:  The same idiots who are upset that he only had FCS offers will be saying what a great pick up it was when the kid has a great year and is labeled a *** recruit. It just never stops.

Relying entirely on the quantity/quality of offers to judge a player's potential is foolish, but you can't tell me that offers say nothing about a player. Also, I don't think anyone is "upset" over the fact that he only has FCS offers, but I'd be slightly more optimistic if he had offers from USC and Florida. I bet if we landed a recruit who had an offer from either of those schools you would be flipping out about how awesome the kid is whether you had seen him play or not.

(06-25-2010 05:27 PM)armour248 Wrote:  

(06-25-2010 03:06 PM)HuskieJ Wrote:  The same idiots who are upset that he only had FCS offers will be saying what a great pick up it was when the kid has a great year and is labeled a *** recruit. It just never stops.

Relying entirely on the quantity/quality of offers to judge a player's potential is foolish, but you can't tell me that offers say nothing about a player. Also, I don't think anyone is "upset" over the fact that he only has FCS offers, but I'd be slightly more optimistic if he had offers from USC and Florida. I bet if we landed a recruit who had an offer from either of those schools you would be flipping out about how awesome the kid is whether you had seen him play or not.

Or, maybe it works the other way. The staff saw that he only had a couple 1-aa offers, saw film and saw him play and said this kid was under-recruited or under-valued...they decide to offer early in hopes that he commits. Being a good kid, with a good background, maybe he rewards NIU for their loyalty and sticks to his verbal even when the IU's or the Louisville's come a calling. Maybe we steal a great prospect.

Remember, the QB position is an anomaly in recruiting. You can sign multiple running backs, receivers, linemen and db's...but usually, you only sign 1 QB. That means there are literally only about 100-150 NATIONALLY that are going to get d-1 schollies and there are plenty out there. That's why you always go with a coaches evaluation at QB and that's why so many great QB's come from MAC schools or FCS (1-aa) schools. I trust our staff completely on this one, in fact, I really like it b/c it shows that they have conviction in their own judgements, not just relying on the hype.

Down through NFL history there have been an outsized number of top QB's from smaller programs; Bradshaw, Romo, Pennington, Garcia etc. Players who were overlooked by the big programs or the big programs that wanted them didn't want them to play QB or have the right scheme or system for them.

If Kill & the staff think McIntosh has what it takes I believe them. He's rated by both Rivals & Scout as one of the top 2 QB's in Indiana. That's pretty strong.

Boom goes the 3rd commit.

#4 and #5 commits are updated.

Can we get a pin?