{"id":989,"date":"2009-09-23T12:39:55","date_gmt":"2009-09-23T17:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gridironstuds.com\/blog\/?p=989"},"modified":"2009-09-23T12:39:55","modified_gmt":"2009-09-23T17:39:55","slug":"glades-lj-thomas-still-underrated-and-understated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gridironstuds.com\/blog\/glades-lj-thomas-still-underrated-and-understated\/","title":{"rendered":"Glades’ L.J. Thomas Still Underrated and Understated"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Playing on one of the perennial top teams in the state and the country hasn’t been enough.\u00a0 Throwing for 26 TD’s as a junior wasn’t enough and taking his team deep into the playoffs in 2008 wasn’t enough.\u00a0 Perhaps starting the season off with 701 passing yards and nine touchdowns with no interceptions will be enough to start getting Leron Thomas the looks he deserves.<\/p>\n

The senior quarterback from Glades Central High School in Belle Glade, Florida continues to be under-recruited despite the accomplishments I laid out above.\u00a0 Thomas has a cannon for an arm,\u00a0 displays great decision making on the field and has a great command of the offense.\u00a0\u00a0 All three of those assets were on display last Friday when Glades Central ripped American Heritage Delray 33-14.\u00a0 Thomas ended the game with 22 for 36 with 382 yards and five touchdowns.\u00a0 Thomas’ five touchdowns were to four different players.<\/p>\n

I am not sure what else recruiters want to see but right now,\u00a0 Thomas is hot and continues to produce.\u00a0 Perhaps he is the victim of being surrounded by great talent but that should not be held against him.\u00a0 Thomas may have a few technical flaws but what quarterback doesn’t?\u00a0 I am figuring sooner or later,\u00a0 the college programs will open their eyes and jump on this prospect.\u00a0 Right now,\u00a0 Michigan, FIU, FAU and a handful of others are showing interest but this list should be larger.\u00a0\u00a0 Perhaps Thomas’ under-recruitment has been a motivating factor and if that is the case,\u00a0 get ready for more fireworks from Thomas and the Glades Central passing attack.<\/p>\n

For visual evidence of Thomas’ exploits on the Gridiron,\u00a0 check out his highlight video,\u00a0 click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Playing on one of the perennial top teams in the state and the country hasn’t been enough.\u00a0 Throwing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[110,158],"class_list":["post-989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-high-school","tag-2010-quarterbacks","tag-leron-thomas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gridironstuds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gridironstuds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gridironstuds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gridironstuds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gridironstuds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gridironstuds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gridironstuds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gridironstuds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gridironstuds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}