Big-Time Sophomore LB Continues Success

Hermitage (Richmond, VA) star Curtis Grant caught the attention of head football coach Patrick Kane as just an eighth grader.

“I saw him playing basketball. He was so much more physically mature than the other guys out there,” said the Panthers varsity head coach.

Grant, now a 6-3, 220-pound junior linebacker/tight end, burst onto the varsity football scene late in 2007 and has since developed into one of the most highly recruited players in the state of Virginia’s 2011 class. Potentially, he could be the most highly recruited player to come out of the talent-rich Hermitage program.

“I’d probably say that, at this stage, that may be true,” Kane said. Hermitage (5-1 this season) has produced current college players such as Jeffrey Fitzgerald (UVa/Kansas State), Jameel Sewell (UVa), Alonzo Tweedy (VT) and Ju-Ju Clayton (VT). Theron Norman and Duan Perez-Means signed with Virginia Tech in last year’s class but neither is currently in Blacksburg.

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