Bekkem Kritza now the backup
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Hasn't he transferred like 6 times (maybe exaggerating) but he was in Colorado, California, Florida then I thought he went back to Colorado but now he's in Florida? What's happening here.
its odd. His stats so far this year:
23 completions on 35 attempts for 293 yards at 12.7 yards per catch and 3 TDs.
Bekkem Kritza's Chaminade-Madonna High School Football Stats
Check out Bekkem Kritza's high school sports stats, including updates while playing football and basketball at Chaminade-Madonna High School (Hollywood, FL).
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I really don't know. Seems these kids are moving looking for perfect scenarios. Raiola changed HSs every year I believe.
I wouldn't be shocked if it occurs at some point, but unless we get another QB in this class, we probably stick with him.
Allar's improved play could open previously closed doors.
Very. I would have to think this is a lot of headache for many involved.
Did they not pursue Malik Washington? Why did he pick Maryland over PSU?
GP (Games Played): 3its odd. His stats so far this year:
23 completions on 35 attempts for 293 yards at 12.7 yards per catch and 3 TDs.
Bekkem Kritza's Chaminade-Madonna High School Football Stats
Check out Bekkem Kritza's high school sports stats, including updates while playing football and basketball at Chaminade-Madonna High School (Hollywood, FL).
Knowing nothing of his situation, I would assume that he was injured. Dave indicates that the team has changed offensive philosophies in mid season.
His career stats indicate that he had only played 5 games total last year and his totals for all of last year do not add up to his single game performance of this year.
Assuming the validity of info provided by the MaxPreps web site.....
I heard, unverified, that he was replaced as the starter by a "dual threat" quarterback after the first game. I could be wrong on that.
Penn State QB Bekkem Kritza Loses Starting Role at Miami Central
Bekkem Kritza, the current quarterback commit for Penn State's 2025 recruiting class, has been demoted to backup at Miami Central as the high school football se
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Penn State football QB commit replaced as starter at high school powerhouse
A prospective member of the Penn State football program is experiencing a slight setback at the onset of his high school senior season. Bekkem Kritza, the Nittany Lions’ quarterback commitment for the 2025 recruiting cycle, has now assumed the backup role for Miami Central as the Rockets’ season...
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Articles out there.
No injury. Changed players. He wasn't the starter at MC last year, hence the transfer back to Colorado.
Well, he is a pro style QB and he has no stats for the previous 2 games so we can safely assume something is up.
Unless they had some unfortunate receiver injuries that forced the in season offensive philosophical changes, I don't understand the impetus for change. His 1st game numbers would seem to be acceptable from my vantage point.
Well if he can’t run a high school offense why did we recruit him in the first place? Boy this ought to be a good one can’t wait for all the boys on the board to say well James knows what he is doing
Sometimes I'm blown away by "football people" personnel decisions.
Production should ALWAYS be valued over potential. It's proven time and time again but the personnel people always find a way to fall in love with physical characteristics over intangibles and production.
Great players ALWAYS have great production and intangibles. Great players SOMETIMES have elite physical measurables compared relatively to their peers.
If you look at the list of the fastest players at the combine and the quarterbacks who had the biggest arms in each draft, you'll barely be able recognize many of the names let alone find ones who ended up being great players.
Quarterback is the biggest head scratcher, a quarterback throws the ball hard and far maybe 4/5 times a game, maybe, however they have to throw it with touch and accuracy 20/25+ times a game, and on the few far throws too.
As for the speed guys, I don't care what DeVonta Smith runs the 40 in, reports from scouts is that he was running 4.55's in private workouts, sometimes 4.6+, but he shows on tape he plays very fast and has shown elite productivity. Meanwhile some NFL GM is drooling over Kadarius Toney because he measures out great without pads and defense against him.
Amon St-Brown ran 4.61 at the combine, Shaka Toney ran 4.53.
Production should ALWAYS be valued over potential. It's proven time and time again but the personnel people always find a way to fall in love with physical characteristics over intangibles and production.
Great players ALWAYS have great production and intangibles. Great players SOMETIMES have elite physical measurables compared relatively to their peers.
If you look at the list of the fastest players at the combine and the quarterbacks who had the biggest arms in each draft, you'll barely be able recognize many of the names let alone find ones who ended up being great players.
Quarterback is the biggest head scratcher, a quarterback throws the ball hard and far maybe 4/5 times a game, maybe, however they have to throw it with touch and accuracy 20/25+ times a game, and on the few far throws too.
As for the speed guys, I don't care what DeVonta Smith runs the 40 in, reports from scouts is that he was running 4.55's in private workouts, sometimes 4.6+, but he shows on tape he plays very fast and has shown elite productivity. Meanwhile some NFL GM is drooling over Kadarius Toney because he measures out great without pads and defense against him.
Amon St-Brown ran 4.61 at the combine, Shaka Toney ran 4.53.
Production ALWAYS over potential. Really? So you put Ethan Knox and bragalone over 4* with less high school production? They might have put up better numbers than Barkley. Didn't josh Adams have better college numbers than Barkley?
Your point goes out the window once you realize there are variables like competition, teammates skill, coaching.
It’s not just total stats, but you should see players produce within the context of the system. Barkley never broke 2k yards in a season in high school, I think he had around 1,800 in his best year. No he didn’t get 400 carries like Bragolone to put up video game numbers, but he still had very good production.
That’s a much different dynamic than a kid getting benched and doing very little in high school.
He picked MD because he believed a Lying Carpet Bagging Flim-Flam Man.
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He did not pick Maryland over PSU. PSU already had a QB committed and was recruiting Zollers OVER Washington.
Washington went with his best committable offer within 500 miles. He really only had 3 better offers. PSU(who already had a commit) Oregon and TAMU. I doubt the Oregon offer was even committable. When teams give out 300 offers they are not all committable.
His list was along the lines of Maryland, Rutgers, Syracuse, Temple, WVU, Western Michigan, Vtech, and so on.
Saquon Barkley had 2000 yards rushing and 31 touchdowns his senior year of high school. He was a high producer.
What are you even talking about? I don't give a crap what his or Journey Brown's star ratings are. They were tremendously highly productive players. Like, the most productive in their entire state.
Proven Production > Potential
Every time.
Sorry, not 2,000, he had 1,859 and 31 TD's. Close enough.
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Well it sounds like they completely bungled this QB recruiting class. They lose out on their top target in Zollers to Missouri of all places, have 1 commit from a backup high school QB, and missed on Washington because of all of this.
So true. Context matters. But no matter what you have to be a high producer.
An interesting case will be to see how Nycole Harbors fairs in South Carolina. He was like a top 10, 5 star type. He is listed as a WR at USC. He had 31 total receptions in his high school career, like 15 each his jr & sr seasons. Unless he played for Tom Osborne in the 90's that a huge lack of proof that he can be a consistent player and producer. I'm interested to see how this works out.
This is what the portal is for.
Also, let's see how it shakes out with the way Allar is playing.
So you already know which one will have the best college career?
Who will have the best career at each position we offered?
Saquon has nothing to be ashamed about. He was of course a great high school player, but his high school rushing stats barely register on state records.
Bragolone had 1,100 more rushing yards in one year than Saquon had in his high school career. Around 240 men have had 4,000 or more rushing yards in PA high school football, and Barkley is not one of them.
Dan Connor, Lavar Arrington, Justin King are a few guys who did pretty well at PSU at other positions that had significantly more rushing yards than Barkley. There are dozens of kids on there who probably didn’t even play after high school.
Nobody can argue Barkley’s high school stats were poor or disappointing, but they aren’t necessarily indicative of the dominating athlete that he is and was.
IIRC, Justin Shorter also had pedestrian high school stats in a very run heavy offense. That one didn’t work out so well!
If Allar has a huge year, and from the first 2 games it looks like he's capable of doing it, expect possible transfers to notice what Kotelnicki was able to do in one offseason.
Not sure we desperately need a guy in the '25 class.
-Allar leaves after this year.
-Pribula vs Grunk for '25 Let's say Pribula wins and is QB in '25 + '26 Grunk portals at end of '25 and is backup in '25.
-Highly rated Huhn from Cali the starter in '27.
-Smolik is backup in '26 and '27
-Could redshirt Grunk this year and maybe he is the guy in '27.
-Portal brought in to spice up competition st some point.
-If Grunk beats out Pribula in '25 then he starts in '25 and '26 and Huhn takes over in '27. Pribula probably portals at end of '25.
-Kritza slots in as backup or 3rd string for a couple years.
Pretty good analysis. No need to freak out missing out on a kid or two. Or even have a weak year.
There is lots of overlap between cycles. And the portal is great for plugging in some gaps.
Is the spring portal period officially gone? if not, I don't understand why Grunk stays in 2025.
Honestly with the portal who knows if any of these guys stay.
Losing out to an upcoming SEC team that put $millions on the table for a recruit that valued money over other factors ("Missiouri of all places", home town state, 110k fans, etc.) is not "bungling" a QB recruiting class. Every high school player and his family has their own set of priorities. Franklin and his staff lost out on their top in state QB priority. May as well get used to it. Or you can puit up a better offer to Zollers to come to PSU, but it would take a couple spare $million..... i.e. if he hasn't already signed a financial contract for the offer he got from Missouri.
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Yep, that's why there are 34 PSU players on opening day NFL rosters.... 8th most of any program...
Duh......
Colleges with the most players on NFL opening night rosters
Here are the college football teams with the most active NFL players on opening day.
www.ncaa.com
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Call me stupid but I preferred Barkley over Bragalone and he demonstrated that at Penn State.
So you disagree with Lowhandicap's point that teams should always recruit production over potential? Bragalone had more production.
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