Benjamin St. Juste a top performer at The Opening

Submitted by Bodogblog on

It's a slideshow, and it's only one day, and a whole bunch of other things that say take this and everything else of The Opening weekend with a grain of salt.  But Michigan commit Benjamin St. Juste continues to impress in Oregon.  Sam Webb also twittered some positive tweets about his play against top WR Tee Higgins in 7-on-7 action yesterday.  I believe St. Juste was a relative unknown last year, who got an offer when he attended one of Michigan's camps.  Pretty impressive. 

You're just not going to find a more impressive looking cornerback than St. Juste who hails from Canada. He's a legit 6'3", 190 pounds and he's so long. He was really good on Saturday at staying hip-to-hip with wide receivers then finding the ball when the quarterback tried to test him. He's an ideal physical outside cornerback and his stock is going to climb with his performance this weekend.

 

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EGD

July 10th, 2016 at 3:06 PM ^

Still really impressive for JH to find this guy out of Canada when he was outside the top 1,000 recruits or whatever. I wont be surprised if BSJ winds up a consensus 4-star by signing day.

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WolvinLA2

July 10th, 2016 at 6:16 PM ^

Sure, but that is to be expected.  Whenever a guy commits 18+ months before signing day, you should expect them to get better in a lot of ways.  It's just funny that many of the critiques were, specifically, "athleticism" and he has proven via his SPARQ testing that athleticism isn't going to be what holds him back.  I highly doubt his athleticism is that crazy different from 12 months ago.

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MayOhioEatTurds

July 10th, 2016 at 8:58 PM ^

were made about blind, one-armed, Lithuanian, stump-dwarves.  Even the film available at the time showed this prospect was but a "stump-dwarf"--I mean, the one thing we knew for sure was that he was already a 6'3" CB. 

Lest we forget:

"right now Harbaugh could offer a blind, one-armed, Lithuanian stump-dwarf a scholly and at least half the board would cheer the brilliance . . . ."

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Wolfman

July 11th, 2016 at 5:38 AM ^

in their evaluation at the time of statement. However, I think it came out of the words of St. Juste himself , and I do agree with those that say Jim Harbaugh is human and he will get some wrong because he is ,GASP, human. However, when there are over 1400 players show up at an exposure camp and only one gets an offer - not just a verbal notice of  interest - but an actual offer, he has to have something. 

Who knows whether the young man will make it or not.?  Its not really that important. Jim probably offers more than a few each year he has doubts about. I don't think he offers anyone though that he has doubts as to the possibility of becoming more than just a pine rider. He might also see a super safety in him if he fails at cb; We are talking about a pretty big young man.  I don't think he's the only successful coach that might take a chance on one or two, depending on the depth chart in place. Based on what we've read though, offer was not made on hope, rather made on the total package. 

I don't think Todd Howard's endorsement hurt him either. He played the spot and he played it for the Wolverines. He knows a BIG corner when he sees one.

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LDNfan

July 10th, 2016 at 5:46 PM ^

Those comments are hilarious....you'd think JH has no clue how to evaluate talent and assemble a team based on some. Yeah he gets it wrong at times..but some post made it sound like he'd completely lost his mind by offer St. Juste. 

 

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