'12 CO OT Joey O'Connor (Signed to Ohio State)

[Buffnik]

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Windsor H.S. (Windsor, CO)

Ht: 6-foot-4
Wt: 278 lbs
40: 5.3 secs

Rivals rating: 4*-5.9rr; #12 OT (#102 overall)
Scout rating: 3*; #17 OG
ESPN rating: 4*-80 grade; #8 OG (#104 overall)
247s rating: 3*-88 rating; #23 OG

Reported Offers: Colorado, Arizona, Arizona State, Arkansas, California, Miami (FL), Michigan, Mississippi State, Nebraska, Notre Dame, Ohio State, Oregon, Penn State, Purdue, South Carolina, TCU, Tennessee, UCLA, USC, Utah, Washington State, Wisconsin, Colorado State

[Buffnik]

Here's Joey's BeRecruited.com profile: http://www.berecruited.com/high-scho...ndsor/football

O'Connor lines up at left tackle for Windsor. He earned all-conference honors as a sophomore. In December, following his junior season, O'Connor was named first-team all-state and became the first offensive lineman ever to be named the Tri-Valley Conference's Offensive Player of the Year.

"Joey is a road grader," [Windsor Coach Chris] Jones said. "It is fun to watch him on film because he finishes plays. He takes a guy and drives them 20 yards down field. His pass protection is really solid. He is just so strong. Once he gets his hands on you, you are not getting off."

http://colorado.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=1176279

CU has shown some early interest and stopped by his school in December. Will be interesting to see if he is invited to CU's Junior Day.

[Buffnik]

O'Connor is starting to blow up. I didn't think much of it when he got the CSU offer. The Utah offer made me take notice a bit. But now Penn State has offered. How good is this year's crop of in-state OLs? Off the hook.

http://colorado.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=1206752

O'Connor, who plans to camp at Penn State in June, said Colorado State and Utah have also verbally offered. Interest is coming in from Colorado, Michigan, Nebraska, Wisconsin, Kansas State and others.

[Buffnik]

Very strong and physical player:

[Shldr2Shldr]

any chance he is at the spring game?

[Duff Man]

Pretty doubtful he will be a Buff, partly because we seem more focused on other guys in-state. I would not be surprised to see him pull the trigger to Penn State if his offer is still good when he goes out there in June.

[Buffnik]

Buffs offered at the Spring Game.

Apparently, we showed well on Saturday and are in the game with O'Connor. Adam has some detail at Rivals and I'd expect an article this week.

[Duff Man]

Pretty interesting. O'Connor himself had been saying we were not showing much interest for quite a while. Seems we made a good impression this weekend, but he seems focused on going out of state to me.

[sliderNcider]

Ya I don't see this one going our way

[Quattro]

Picked up an offer from South Carolina.

[cu2x]

2 PAC-12 offers now:


http://www.greeleytribune.com/articl...ntProfile=1001

[sliderNcider]

It looks like he wants to wait til NSD. I don't know if CU will wait that long tho

[BuffInVA]

It looks like he wants to wait til NSD. I don't know if CU will wait that long tho

Wow. If that's his plan it's not very smart.

[Duff Man]

It looks like he wants to wait til NSD. I don't know if CU will wait that long tho

These types of plans have a way of changing.

[black&gold]

I know a coach at Windsor and we are not recruiting him very hard. His top three are Penn State, Utah, and Colorado State in that order.