One of Virginia Tech’s most prized recruits of the 2008 class, Myrtle Beach (S.C.) linebacker Bruce Taylor has not been completely healthy each of his past two seasons…especially his junior season. But, in what is good news for the Myrtle Beach squad and bad news for everyone else, the 6-3, 230-pound prospect is feeling much, much better two games into his senior season.

“I’m back to 100 percent,” Taylor said. “It feels really good. In the 10th grade, I had appendicitis and that slowed me down. Last year, I had the shoulder and the arm. This year, nothing is slowing me down. I’m playing healthy and that is something I haven’t been able to do for a long time.”

Last season, Taylor suffered through a broken right arm and left shoulder troubles. He had surgery on his left shoulder this offseason.

“I’ve been rehabbing my shoulder for seven months and there is still a little pain,” Taylor said. “It dislocated twice last season and some ligaments were messed up, so the doctors went back and tied up all of the ligaments real tight. It will loosen up when I do workouts, but I’m not sure it’ll ever be like it was. I’m not a quarterback, though, so it really doesn’t matter too much.”

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