PrestonQuarles.

Preston Quarles is a junior safety and running back at Lathrop High School in Missouri, and the most useful thing in his file is a speed number taken in live play: 21 miles per hour, measured by Reel Analytics during a game. That reads differently than a camp forty. A timed forty is run in ideal conditions against nobody; in-game top speed is what a player actually reaches with pads on while reading a play. He has a 4.56 forty on record as well, and the two numbers agree — which is the point, because they corroborate each other rather than asking a coach to choose which to believe. Four clips are posted from his junior season, split deliberately into offense, defense and return work, so a staff can evaluate him at whichever spot it is recruiting for. A 220-pound bench and a 345-pound squat give him a base to build on as the 6-0, 160-pound frame fills out. Quarles is an ONE11 two-star, and a posted stat line is the obvious next step.

2028 safety with a verified 21 mph in-game top speed