P L A Y E R B I O S
WHAT HE DID Monroe ;nished with more than 70 tackles,
two interceptions and seven pass breakups as a junior. He
followed that performance with a strong senior season in
which he had about 70 tackles along with ;ve pass breakups,
three forced fumbles and an interception.
WHAT HE WON In addition to his three-star rating from Ri-
vals.com, Monroe was the sixth-ranked player in the District
of Columbia. He was also named ;rst-team All-Washington
Catholic Athletic Conference and received an honorable
mention All-Met nod from The Washington Post.
WHERE HE VISITED Emerging as a probable high-level
prospect as an eighth-grader, Monroe quickly garnered atten-
tion at various scouting camps and combines before receiving
his ;rst oer o=cially visiting Arizona State, Pitt and Rutgers
and also seriously considered Florida and Miami. When col-
lege football's coaching carousel began spinning in January,
creating a mad recruiting scramble before signing day, Miller
was at one point one of the hottest prospects in the nation.
A year prior to that, however, his college future was up in
the air. When PSU ;rst started recruiting him as a sopho-
more, he attended Frankford High where, by his own ad-
mission, he struggled academically. He said he would skip
a class here and there, and when he started his junior year,
his grade point average was below a 2.0. "I was in a hole,"
he said, "a deep hole."
Miller's football ability had never been in question – he's
a 6-foot-5 speed rush end who coaches think might grow
to be 260 pounds – but Penn State was initially hesitant to
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