Jackson Carver confirmed signing, gives Miami Hurricanes rangy and athletic TE with bright future
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Loomis Chaffee (Conn.) TE/ATH Jackson Carver first landed an offer from Miami Hurricanes tight ends coach Stephen Field in April, and a week later he was in Miami with his family meeting with coaches and attending the spring game.
Two months later he was a Miami commitment.
And today’s he’s confirmed as a Hurricanes signee.
“I love Miami – everything about the school and program is great,” said Carver, who enrolls next month. “They (coaches) really stress that they can develop me, how they think they’re the best school for me, getting me to the next level.”
Carver landed over 30 scholarship offers during his recruiting process. Auburn, Iowa, South Carolina and LSU were others high in his picture prior to him shutting down his recruitment.
“I trust coach Field, I trust the coaching staff to help me,” Carver said. “I’m focused on working and never settle.”
The rangy tight end has an interesting background. He grew up playing hockey in Minnesota, then became a lacrosse star and transferred to a renowned lacrosse boarding school in Indiana for his junior year of high school. He wound up committing to Notre Dame for lacrosse. But then, because he wasn’t playing hockey anymore, he took up football that fall and realized that was his future.
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So you get an idea of his athleticism, and it’s also worth noting that Nebraska offered him as a defensive end.
“He’s a kid who moves around really well, has a high level of athletic ability,” Loomis Chaffee coach Adam Banks. said. “You couple that with his size (6-6, 220), that’s a body really difficult to find in football these days. I think from an athletic standpoint, size and strength standpoint he’s someone that has the ability to develop into a great player. The sky is the limit for him.
“They have some big plans for him in being able to be multiple, be in line, part of the interior core, going outside wide for a matchup problem,” Banks said. “The blocking piece will come, it’s all going to be how they want to use him. But the physicality part I don’t anticipate being an issue. It’s just a matter of him being more and more comfortable, understanding the movements involved. He has a tremendously high ceiling.”
Banks compares Carver to a young Rob Gronkowski/Travis Kelce/Cameron Brate type player.
“He is like them as a significant receiving threat on the outside, also a very capable blocker,” Banks said.
