2013 Football Recruiting Rankings: Quarterbacks

Author:
Braden Gall
Publish date:
Feb 1, 2013

National Signing Day 2013 is right around the corner and Athlon Sports is releasing its position-by-position rankings for the Class of 2013 based on the Athlon Consensus 100. Who is left on the board? Who has the best class at one position? Who had positional needs to fill? And, obviously, who are the stars of tomorrow fans can look forward to at every position?

Every quarterback class is different and the tiers of talent vary greatly from one year to the next. In the Class of 2013, there are two names, literally and figuratively, above the rest.

Max Browne is the nation's top quarterback and is headed to USC from storied Pacific Northwest prep program Skyline High School. He is a prototypical Trojans quarterback at 6-foot-5 and 210 pounds. Browne is poised, mature, a natural leader, has an accurate arm and will push for early playing time.

Meanwhile, 3000 miles away at Fork Union Military Academy, Christian Hackenberg has Penn State fans excited about their future for the first time in over a year. Hackenberg has a huge frame, huge arm and huge upside. There is a reason Bill O’Brien stayed put at Penn State instead of bolting for the NFL and he stands 6-foot-4 and will grow into a 230-pound monster in Happy Valley.

No other quarterback is ranked in the top 70 nationally, so these two pro-style signal callers are head and shoulders above the rest of this class.

The rest of the rankings read as a who’s who of college football powerhouses. And since very few quarterbacks are willing to compete with another star recruit for playing time, everyone got in on the action. Miami, Michigan, Alabama, Georgia, Oklahoma, LSU, Texas, Stanford, Washington and a dozen other major programs landed their future leader at quarterback.

In fact, Texas A&M is the only program with two nationally ranked quarterbacks committed currently in Lone Star State prospects Kenny Hill and Kohl Stewart. Running Kevin Sumlin’s system is extremely attractive and Johnny Manziel has made College Station a glamorous place to play, so both players are willing to compete for time. Few programs right now can demand competition for star quarterback recruits like the Aggies.

The name to watch might be out in the desert, however. Rich Rodriguez has found a guy to immediately replace Matt Scott in dual-threat star Anu Solomon. He led famed high school Bishop Gorman in Las Vegas to a 57-3 record and four straight state championships. He has the perfect skill set to run the zone read option and is thick enough (205 pounds) to withstand the beating. Pac-12 defensive coordinators might want to start watching film on him as soon as possible.

2013 Positional Rankings: QB | RB | WR | TE | OL | DL | LB | DB | ATH


	Name	AC100	Hometown	Ht	Wt	Verbal
1.	Max Browne	No. 11	Sammamish, WA	6-5	210	USC
2.	Christian Hackenberg	No. 13	Fork Union, VA	6-4	210	Penn St
3.	Shane Morris	No. 74	Warren, MI	6-3	200	Michigan
4.	Cooper Bateman	No. 76	Salt Lake City, UT	6-3	195	Alabama
5.	Brice Ramsey	No. 86	Kingsland, GA	6-3	200	Georgia
6.	Kevin Olsen	No. 87	Wayne, NJ	6-3	195	Miami
7.	Ryan Burns	No. 113	Ashburn, VA	6-5	225	Stanford
8.	Troy Williams	No. 114	Harbor City, CA	6-0	175	Washington
9.	Cody Thomas	No. 119	Colleyville, TX	6-5	220	Oklahoma
10.	Hayden Rettig	No. 143	Los Angeles, CA	6-4	210	LSU
11.	Tyrone Swoopes	No. 150	Whitewright, TX	6-4	230	Texas
12.	Mitch Trubisky	No. 151	Mentor, OH	6-3	195	North Carolina
13.	Aslantli Woulard	No. 153	Winter Park, FL	6-3	205	--
14.	Jeremy Johnson	No. 155	Montgomery, AL	6-5	205	Auburn
15.	Joshua Dobbs	No. 166	Alpharetta, GA	6-3	190	Arizona St
16.	Kohl Stewart	No. 170	Houston, TX	6-3	185	Texas A&M
17.	Anu Solomon	No. 173	Las Vegas, NV	6-1	205	Arizona
18.	J.T. Barrett	No. 175	Wichita Falls, TX	6-1	210	Ohio St
19.	Bucky Hodges	No. 188	Farnham, VA	6-5	225	Virginia Tech
20.	Damion Terry	No. 198	Erie, PA	6-4	210	Michigan St
21.	Malik Zaire	No. 199	Ketting, OH	6-0	195	Notre Dame
22.	Aaron Bailey	No. 215	Bolingbrook, IL	6-2	215	Illinois
23.	Kenny Hill	No. 219	Southlake, TX	6-1	205	Texas A&M
24.	Jared Goff	No. 224	Kentfield, CA	6-4	190	Cal
25.	Anthony Jennings	No. 231	Marietta, GA	6-2	205	LSU
26.	Zack Greenlee	No. 232	Stockton, CA	6-2	185	Fresno St