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Felipe Claybrooks, Durant Brooks, Jonathan Smith.
I hear what your saying, but even at a 4 star, I think he was greatly underrated. I liked Reggie Ball, but he was not the best passing QB. Just imagine the numbers CJ would have put up with an avg passing college QB for 3 years. He was a matchup nightmare for any college CB and NFL CB. Constantly double teamed and he still broke records. I stand by my most underrated players at GT.Shaq I can see but Calvin was at least a 4 star probably should have been a 5 star who had, I am pretty sure, a lengthy and impressive offer list which by definition would keep him off any list of underrated players who ended up being much better than most would have surmised based on stars, offers, all state mentions, and the like.
Felipe Claybrooks, Durant Brooks, Jonathan Smith.
I'm going to follow @Techster's lead in answering for guys who I think were underappreciated at Tech.
1) I agree with him about Tevin Washington (and believe I may have helped convince him of this fact). Not only did the offense perform really efficiently under Tevin in 2011 and 2012, I think his receivers still let him down or he'd have had more efficient passer ratings.
2) On D, I'm going to use the opposite kind of data. I think that Euclid Cummings, TJ Barnes, Izzan Cross, and Brandon Watts were better players than the performance we got from their D because of coaching.
I remember Nate but not because of football. He was the late night DJ at PJ Haley‘s nest in those days. Dude could spin a mean tune f’sho. “The roof, the roof, the roof is on fiyah...”Nate Kelsey from '85-'88. He wore the #1 right before Ken Swilling arrived. Nate missed the success of '89 and '90, but had he been at Tech then, he would have just added to our already prolific offensive production. He scored his first career touchdown during the Fog Bowl against UGA. A really bruising runner.
I'm not saying that he was not somewhat under rated, but he was recognized as one of the stars of the team. Al Ciraldo constantly referred to him as "big play Willie Clay". I think he played in the NFL for several years.When I was in school in 89-93 Willie Clay from West Virginia was pretty good, At 5' 9" don't think he had much starpower. He would get my vote
So UnderatedPJ Daniels
PJ Daniels
Good question but he was recruited by Nebraska as a quarterback but maybe not by South Carolina or Clemson because of his size. I am pretty sure he was all state as was his cousin Harvey Middleton another Yellow Jacket great. Maybe he was underrated coming out of high school but that did not last long.Was Lil’ Joe underrated? If so, he’s at the top of my list. If not, then absolutely Tevin. In fact, he’s still under appreciated by his school’s fans