Led by primary recruiter and new quarterbacks coach Mike O’Cain, Virginia Tech is targeting at least two offensive line prospects out of Spring Valley High School in Columbia, South Carolina. Head coach Jimmy Noonan boasts at least three Division 1A caliber players, all of whom earned first-team all-area honors on last season’s Region V-AAAA championship squad.

“Virginia Tech offered Quinton Richardson at the beginning of last week,” Noonan said. “He’s being recruited by most folks in the SEC and the ACC. Notre Dame is also interested.

“Clemson, South Carolina, Vanderbilt, Duke have offered Mason Cloy. Virginia Tech is showing strong interest. Coach O’Cain said they probably would offer, but they had some more selling to do to some folks up there.”

A former basketball player as well, Quinton Richardson primarily played offensive tackle last season but is athletic enough to be a force on both sides of the ball. At offensive tackle, he graded out at 81 percent and had 78 knockdown blocks last season as a junior.

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