MIKE BROWN: Three Eastern Buckeye Conference QBs headed to D1 football programs
I stated last season that the Eastern Buckeye Conference featured three of the top quarterbacks in all of Ohio, and apparently college recruiters felt the same way.
Three of the EBC signal-callers, or half of the teams that comprise the six-member EBC, are ticketed for Division I college football.
West Branch’s Dru DeShields, named first team All-Ohio the past two seasons, signed with Kent State this winter. DeShields is currently recovering from offseason knee surgery.
Salem’s Jackson Johnson, who was also a first-team All-Ohioan, recently announced he will continue his academic and football career with the Tulsa Golden Hurricane.
Johnson will play for new Tulsa head coach Kevin Wilson, regarded as one of the top offensive minds in major college football. Wilson is the former offensive coordinator at Ohio State and accepted the Tulsa head coaching position in the offseason.
The third Eastern Buckeye Conference quarterback to commit to a D1 program is Alliance’s Brendan Zurbrugg, who just this week, committed to the Northwestern Wildcats of the Big Ten Conference.
Zurbrugg had initially committed to Syracuse but when the Northwestern offer came in, he flipped his commitment to head coach Pat Fitzgerald and the Wildcats.
Zurbrugg’s father, Chris, was recruited and played quarterback for the late Bo Schembechler at the University of Michigan in the mid-1980’s.
Brendan Zurbrugg will be a senior at Alliance this fall, as the Aviators should be one of the top teams in the Division 3 high school ranks.
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