
Zac Stewart is a junior center and offensive lineman at Westerville South in Columbus, Ohio, and his profile pairs the two things that make an interior lineman easy to recruit. The first is the frame, and it now has strength numbers behind it. At 6-4 and 290 pounds he already carries college size, and a 500-pound squat with a 245-pound bench is the lower-body base a center needs to anchor against a nose tackle. The height is unusual for the position — most centers are shorter and thicker — and a tall center has to play with better knee bend than his teammates, which is exactly the habit that creates the versatility to slide to guard later. The second is a 4.0 GPA. Center is where a staff trusts a player to make the line calls, read a front before the snap and get four other people into the right place. A perfect transcript is no coincidence at that spot, and line coaches notice. It also means admissions will never be the reason a program passes. Junior mid-season film is on file, and a verified forty would complete the sheet.
6-4 junior center with a 500-pound squat and a 4.0 GPA