The Wolverine: Covering University of Michigan Football and Sports
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football recruiting The Need For Speed is how well his times stack up naNow that Michigan is recruiting at tionally among the best high school — or even above — its pre-Rodriguez sprinters. His 10.51-second 100-meter historical standard in terms of player dash was tied for the 17th-fastest time size and ranking, the next phase is to in the country, and his 21.13-second 200-meter clocking is the No. 24 effort inject a serious dose of team speed. Peppers is not only a talented nationally for the 2013 spring season. Peppers isn't the only speedy prosfootball player, he's a great overall pect among Michigan's current reathlete, as well. He is the reigning overall New Jersey state champion in cruits. The 2015 class already includes the 100-meter and 200-meter dashes. Lakewood (Ohio) St. Edward defenThat's an outstanding accomplish- sive back Shaun Crawford, who has ment, but even more impressive impressed on the track himself. Crawford's 10.54 in the 100-meter dash for the spring 2013 season ranked fifth nationally among sophomores, and his time of 21.47 in the 200 was the eighth-best in the country for a 10th-grader. The majority of the high schoolers faster than that duo will go on to college scholarships on the track, not the gridiron (see sidebar for comparisons among college football prospects). Even more impressive is that Peppers and Crawford put up those times as underclassmen. They are in elite company among the best sprinters in the country, many of whom were at least a year older. Eight of the players who were faster than Peppers in the 100-meter dash in the Lakewood (Ohio) St. Edward defensive back and U-M pledge Shaun Crawford's 100-meter dash time of 10.54 spring (and two who tied in the spring 2013 season ranked fifth nationally among his time of 10.51) are now in college, and a year of physisophomores. photo courtesy rivals.com cal maturity could improve