Middle-School Star Racking Up College Football Offers

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Type in the name “Owen Pappoe” in a Google search and you’ll get 13,800 results.

If you don’t know, Pappoe is a highly rated football prospect from Grayson who has scholarship offers from numerous top-drawer college programs, including the University of Georgia, which offered last week.

He’s 6-foot-1, 195 pounds and runs the 40 in 4.57 seconds, and might play almost anywhere on defense at the next level.

They call him “The Freak” for his size, strength and speed.

But he’s yet to play a down of high school football.

Pappoe, a rising freshman at Grayson High School, already has at least 9 Division I scholarship offers. He’s only 14 years old.

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Pappoe announced the offer on Twitter, saying, “Blessed to say I’ve received my 9th offer from UGA.”

Along with UGA, Auburn, Boston College, Kentucky, Miami (Fla.), Michigan, South Carolina, Tennessee and West Virginia have also offered, according to Bleacher Report.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution said the offer might be the first time ever in the stateof Georgia a middle-schooler has been offered a college football scholarship.

It’s not the first time for the Bulldogs, however. UGA offered eighth-grader Dylan Moses of Louisiana two years ago; Moses has since committed to LSU.

Pappoe was recently named the national player of the week by Youth1.com, which said in an email that he is a 2019 Elite 101 member and was named an Eastbay Youth All-American by Football University.

(Photo: Owen Pappoe; Youth1.com)