OU Offers FL DB Juwan Dowels – Visit Coming?
Posted on: December 10, 2013
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Last week CB Juwan Dowels out of Plantation Florida tweeted out that he received an offer from both Oklahoma and Clemson. We we’re able to confirm the offer last Friday.
We know OU is doing a lot of recruiting down in the southern Florida area right now. Many of you will recall that Cornelius Floyd, another southern Florida CB was offered recently. Here is our write-up on Floyd: https://thefootballbrainiacs.com/?p=1342
Just watched a little bit of film on Dowels and this kid is NICE. I’ve always been a big fan of recruiting DBs from southern Florida. They’ve got those 5’10-6’1 loose hipped explosive kids growing on the palm trees down there. Dowels is hip-bone free. He looks he’s got rubber bands holding him together. He turns so well and you can see that fast twitch muscle oozing out of him. I liked Cornelius as well. He’s definitely got size on Dowels and that certainly brings it’s own advantages but if we’re talking strictly about the ability to match a pattern Dowels looks like he could be elite in that area. He’s got top end speed to stay in phase as well and a smooth backpedal. And his lateral quickness and stop and start is off the charts. Dowels technique looks pretty good. I like to use Trai Mosley as an example of a HS kid with polished technique (which doesn’t mean Trai is perfect even on his tape – but you can see he’s well schooled) and while Dowels isn’t quite that polished he appears to be more fluid and athletic than Mosley. And that is saying a lot. Like I said this dude is NICE!
I personally love this offer. In fact Juwan may have just gone to the top of my board. It’s hard to go wrong with southern Florida DBs in my eyes. Juwan is no exception.
Official Visit
It can be tough to pull Florida kids out of Florida but the good news for Sooner fans is Dowels wants to get out of Florida. Coach Bobby Jack visited Dowels last night and the visit went really well! The visit went so well in fact that Dowels has set up an official visit to Oklahoma for January 17th. It’s scary to think how good Dowels can be under Coach Mike Stoops tutelage. He’d be a great pick up. Believe me, Juwan is a cover corner if I’ve ever seen one. We will do an evaluation on this young man very soon.
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For those of you that care about offers (I don’t because a lot of coaches can’t evaluate for sh*t anyway) his bigger offers are Clemson, TAMU and Utah.
I understand why some feel this way. But is it any coincidence that the two teams playing for the national title have been in the top 3 to 5 in recruiting for the past 4 or so years? Or does it not seem odd that all the top teams each year in the rankings and who win the most games are also the top teams in recruiting as well as the programs with the most kids in the NFL?
It’s because the top teams are good at finding the kids. Then the other teams offer when they see them offer. Then the recruiting services make them 4 star players. You know that South Carolina already knew about Orso before Oklahoma did? Did they offer? Nope. When Oklahoma did they offered. As I’ve said before I could have my grandmother catalog offers and assign star ratings based on that and she’d probably be pretty accurate but she’d also overlook A LOT of kids who deserve a look and deserve respect and you can’t do that unless you’re really evaluating kids. If we had looked at Papi White and said – well he has no offers so he must not be good then we wouldn’t have featured him. And only a few days after we featured him he got his first offer from Bobby Petrino at Western Kentucky. Pat Choudja had no BCS offers when we featured him and a week later he got the ASU offer and now has a WSU offer as well. And trust me more will come.
K, how valid are his measurables? I thought I saw him listed at 5’10 and running a 4.7 somewhere, though I don’t usually put much stock in stats since we wouldn’t have offered if we didn’t think he’d match up. I agree that the upside of both Dowels and Floyd are immense.
Either of these, plus Quick and Parker would close out OUs shutdown department for a good 3 years. Admittedly DBs are one of my favorite positions.
One of my favorites as well Indy. And I haven’t seen the 4.7 time but as you mentioned it would obvious be garbage because this fella can run!
All I look at on highlight films for DBS is their ability to rotate their hips in and out for change of directions and their ability to accelerate following the hip rotation….. Speed is way overrated …. Football iq/ play recognition is the equalizer for speed ….. Just my 2 cents …. This prospect looks like the kind of guy mike stoops like….. Sorta like a young Derrick strait …..
His times were listed on espn…personally I watch his tape and 10 plus pics and numerous balls patted down not to mention a few pic 6s. He’s got enough speed and the skills to be a cover corner…Here’s the link http://espn.go.com/college-sports/football/recruiting/player/combine/_/id/152473/juwan-dowels
I totally agree. Any word on where OU stands with Quick?
Coach Mike will have a hard time prying Quick away from Coach Norvell from what I’m hearing.
Ha, Maybe he could line up on both! Very unlikely, though.
He is indeed Norvells recruit right now
Super K
If that’s true, I assume Quick will be coming to play the slot?
That’s what I was told and I’m sure that is the case right now but…we’ll see how things go when he gets on campus.
Have you guys evaluated all the commits? It would be cool if you could have an excel layout that lists each recruit, committed and prospects, and each one of your evaluations next to the fellow. I’d prefer this to any paid site (I’ve never paid for a recruiting site in my life anyway).
We haven’t gotten a chance to you. But in the offseason we’re actually going to do that and some other cool things 🙂 And thanks for the kind words!
http://espn.go.com/college-sports/football/recruiting/player/combine/_/id/152473/juwan-dowels
So he apparently is actually below 5’10” and ran 4.72.
Pretty sure those are from a Nike camp this year.
We don’t know when that was from or under what conditions. According to ESPN Tito Windham ran a 4.69 but had the fastest time at an SEC and the 2nd fastest at another clocking in the 4.3s. Dowels is fast. There aint no stop watch that can tell you otherwise.