If you are 6-6, 340 and you have A+ technique/coordination at 18yo you are called Orlando Pace and you are the #1 recruit in the country, play three years at Ohio State, get picked first in the draft, dominate the NFL for a decade and go immediately into the Hall of Fame.
Is it a surprise that a 6-6, 340 recruit is not there yet technique/coordination wise?
Nope. And for the record, again, I was not talking at all about technique.
COORDINATION ALSO.
This is why you can see players like Dylan Axelrod (shoutout to Derek) in HS and think they are all world. Because the ability to coordinate movements among limbs is proportional to how much effort it takes to move them. So guys who are at that LB height/weight in HS look like gods, because they are at an optimal point from a size/coordination standpoint.
Kalepo is not my favorite recruit. I'm not sure he will be great, because it's obvious he has a long way to go and there is so much to do.
It is one of the reasons why at bowdowntowashington.com we have predict a RANGE for recruits rather than just thinking that him being a four-star means he will be better than a three star[/s] it's harder to predict guys like him.
The deal with recruits is that they are usually either smaller and coordinated or bigger and uncoordinated.
When you have big and coordinated and you just need technique, you have Kaleb McGary.
When you have big, coordinated and technique you have Clowney.
You get my point.
I'm not here stanning for Kalepo. But if a guy is 6-6, 340 and can move (even if it's not super coordinated movement at this point) you have to take him because by his RS-Soph year, he might really start to bulldoze people.
