{"id":7200,"date":"2013-02-08T17:38:38","date_gmt":"2013-02-08T17:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nsr-inc.com\/blog\/?p=7200"},"modified":"2013-02-25T15:18:25","modified_gmt":"2013-02-25T15:18:25","slug":"nsr-prospect-o-j-howard-signs-with-crimson-tide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/nsr-prospect-o-j-howard-signs-with-crimson-tide\/","title":{"rendered":"NSR Prospect O.J. Howard signs with Crimson Tide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4YJFQEgz_6M\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"650\" height=\"488\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>NSR 2013 football prospect, OJ Howard, from <a title=\"Autauga Academy\" href=\"http:\/\/www.autaugaacademy.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Autauga Academy in Autauga, Alabama<\/a> signed a National Letter of Intent with defending BCS National Champion Alabama on National Signing Day.\u00a0 Ranked by <a title=\"Rivals O.J. Howard\" href=\"http:\/\/rivals.yahoo.com\/footballrecruiting\/football\/recruiting\/player-O.J.-Howard-112238;_ylt=ArwJBAfiLvk8gNC3RhRwUS9DPZB4\" target=\"_blank\">Rivals.com as a five-star prospect<\/a>, OJ is part of the Crimson Tide\u2019s top rated recruiting class which includes five other five-star recruits.\u00a0 The 6\u20196\u201d 220-pound tight end is expected to compete for playing time right away.\u00a0 As an early enrollee on the Tuscaloosa campus, OJ spoke to ESPN about his decision to attend Alabama.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA lot of other schools talked to me about starting something new,&#8221; Howard said. &#8220;To me, that would be making it about me. I don&#8217;t want it to be about me, I want it to be about the team. I want to work hard and earn my spot. If it was easy to play at Alabama, everybody would do it. It&#8217;s not easy to live up to the legacy they have built there.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Carrying a 3.3 GPA, OJ was a three-time All-State selection and was recruited by every major college football program in the nation.\u00a0 He was the first 2013 prospect to verbally commit to Saban when he announced his decision early in his junior year of high school.\u00a0 His NSR scout is <a title=\"NSR's Coach Robert Cagle\" href=\"http:\/\/nsr-inc.com\/cagle\/\" target=\"_blank\">Coach Robert Cagle who covers southern Alabama<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNSR really is different and OJ Howard manifests that difference,\u201d said NSR president Rusty Rigney upon learning of OJ\u2019s signing.\u00a0 \u201cThe prospects we search for, personally scout, interview and enroll are true student-athletes.\u00a0 Our on-the-ground scouts identify prospects which are excellent reflections of their families, schools and communities.\u00a0 While we place prospects at every level of college athletics from the highest level of NCAA DI competition to junior colleges, we recognize that OJ is an ideal example of the type of high school athlete we seek to represent and promote to college coaches.\u00a0 He is a young man who possesses athletic talent, solid grades, a supportive family and high character.\u00a0 We couldn\u2019t be prouder to be associated with this quality young man.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NSR 2013 football prospect, OJ Howard, from Autauga Academy in Autauga, Alabama signed a National Letter of Intent with defending BCS National Champion Alabama on National Signing Day.\u00a0 Ranked by Rivals.com as a five-star prospect, OJ is part of the Crimson Tide\u2019s top rated recruiting class which includes five other five-star recruits.\u00a0 The 6\u20196\u201d 220-pound &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/nsr-prospect-o-j-howard-signs-with-crimson-tide\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[176,177],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7200"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7200"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7213,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7200\/revisions\/7213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}