Wolfpack offers junior Germane Crowell
NC State signed a small but (very) speedy receiver from Winston-Salem (N.C.) Carver High named Brian Sessoms in the class of 2015.
Sessoms redshirted last fall, but he still made an impression, and was named co-offensive scout team player of the year at the team banquet, joining touted running back Johnny Frasier.
When Sessoms was a senior at Carver, one of his quarterbacks was an athletic sophomore named Germane Crowell Jr. The son of Carver's head coach and former Virginia/NFL star wide receiver Germane Crowell enters his senior high school season as a touted prospect in his own right.
Crowell continues to play some quarterback for Carver, but it is on defense where the 6-foot-3, 180-pounder is emerging as a prized prospect. He visited NC State unofficially Jan. 30 and gained an offer from the Wolfpack.
“I am started to get into the recruiting process with [safeties and co-special teams coordinator] Coach [Clayton] White over there,” Crowell noted. “They seem like good people. It seems like a good school. I have a friend that’s a freshman up there, Brian Sessoms, that says it’s a good school.
“He said he liked the coaching staff and how they related to the players.”
Kentucky has since also offered Crowell. Duke, Virginia, Virginia Tech and Wake Forest earlier tendered. He said that Duke, Virginia and WFU had been recruiting him the hardest in the early stages of his recruitment.
He also visited Wake Forest on Jan. 30, and expects to check out Duke this weekend for a junior day and then Virginia. Despite the fact that his father played at Virginia, Crowell said that is “not really” a significant factor in his recruitment.
Instead, he has a few other criteria that are more important.
“The scheme, does the school fit me, do I like the school, is it going to put me in the best position for life after football, things like that,” Crowell listed.
Rivals.com rates Crowell the No. 13 class of 2017 prospect in the state of North Carolina and No. 37 junior athlete nationally.