OwenMcElroy.

Owen McElroy is a 2030 offensive and defensive lineman from John I. Burton High in Norton, Virginia, and two numbers on his profile are unusual for a freshman. The first is a 4.0 GPA. Grades are the one recruiting number a player controls completely, and a perfect one banked this early means admissions will never be the reason a program passes — including the academic-first schools that recruit the transcript before the film. The second is a 445-pound squat, with a 465-pound deadlift and a 235-pound bench behind it, at 6'2 and 265 pounds. Those are working numbers for a first-year lineman, and the squat in particular says he has already spent real time under a bar rather than just growing into the position. He has three full seasons and three offseasons before signing day, which is the whole point of being on record now. The frame will fill, the forty will drop, and every measurable he adds from here builds a development curve college staffs can follow rather than a single snapshot.

2030 Virginia lineman with a 4.0 GPA and a 445-pound squat as a freshman