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Message: [QUOTE="relaxer, post: 5474399, member: 7852"] I agree, I think he's a great player and will fill a role in the Syracuse offense. Just don't think he had that top 10 player in his class ceiling that the recruiters were giving him based on his reclassification to the class of 2026. Very skilled and a great passer to boot, but i think he's merely a good dodger, not a great one. Slightly different player, but I think the profile he fits is more akin to Hiltz -- and at his best Hiltz was a great player (possibly elite in the PLL, which suits his game), but not a first team AA caliber guy who could take over games. I've had this discussion at length in the past on here, but for me to be that level of attack recruit you need certain traits that I don't think apply to Peck. Namely, you need to be an elite dodger. There is the rare exception for a generationally talented finisher here or there, but for the most part if you can't consistently draw slides against great high school poles (either by pure quickness like Sowers, brute force like O'Neill, or some combination of skill and innate game sense like Teat) you're not going to be a game-changing player. This was my comment a few years ago about Deere -- good player but not the 5 star recruit some were asking IL to anoint him as. Spallina was that rare player who deserved 5 stars even with questions about his athleticism (although at the high school level even he still beat poles regularly), and that deficiency is what is standing between him and being a Tewaarton level player. Spencer Ford is another guy who I felt might have some trouble imposing himself as a dodger at the next level, and had extensive back and forth with Zack80 about a couple of years ago. I'm interested to see in this upcoming season how he's developed physically after his redshirt season, and if he can be enough of a dodger to live up to his ranking. I don't know if Higgins will ultimately end up being a better player, but I think he's more likely to live up to the top 10 ranking because he is an elite dodger from X. [/QUOTE]

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