Jonathon Acevedo - an emerging college football prospect for Lane Tech

Jonathon Acevedo (6-0, 240lbs, class of 2010, Offensive Center)

I've talked a lot on this website about  Laken Tomlinson and Louis Pasat-Trinca, two of Lane Tech's most highly recruited college football prospects in a long time. But another Lane Tech football player is starting to garner some attention. His name is Jonathon Acevedo.

I first heard about Jonathon last year after talking to his parents Carlos and Loida Acevedo at a Lane Tech football game last fall. They mentioned their son Jonathon, who started on the line for Lane. When I heard the name Jonathon Acevedo, the name sounded familiar to me. I soon found out that Jonathon is the brother of Chris Acevedo who starred as an all-city lineman for Curie (class of 2003) and played football for Northern Illinois (starting all 13 games in 2006).

Just because of his genes, I knew that Jonathon had to be someone to watch out for. But at the same time I noticed that he wasn't as big as his much bigger brother Chris ( 6-5, 310lbs). I've met Chris, he is truly mammoth sized.

Jonathon played well and started for a solid Lane Tech city championship team. During the off season Tomlinson and Pasat-Trinca got some serious recruiting attention due to their performances at football camps and other off-season activities. Trinca gave a verbal commitment to Iowa last week and Tomlinson is reported to be leaning towards Ohio State University, Illinois, and maybe a couple other schools.

However, Acevedo also did well during the off season. So well that ESPN rated him a 63 on their high school football grading system. A score between 60-69 means that the player has the "ability to develop into a solid contributor at the Division 1 level."

"He is aggressive, smart and works to finish blocks", said ESPN regarding Acevedo.

The final grade is not in yet for Acevedo, a lot depends on how well he plays his senior year for Lane Tech and how much he develops his physical and athletic skills. Acevedo did just finish a pretty good track season. He is listed in the CPS Leaderboard for the Shot Put.

I know one thing, come football season, there will be a lot more fans and scouts attending Lane Tech games. Many of them will be watching Tomlinson and Trinca. Now, they should add Jonathon Acevedo to their list.

Comments

[concerned]

where can one find this scout rating? i clicked on the link but its just a general outline. I cant see a 6 foot 200 pounder being effective at the D1 level

[dude]

Here is a link to the scouting rating on Acevedo:

http://insider.espn.go.com/ncf/recruiting/tracker/player?recruitId=82612&season=2010&action=login&appRedirect=http%3a%2f%2finsider.espn.go.com%2fncf%2frecruiting%2ftracker%2fplayer%3frecruitId%3d82612%26season%3d2010

AS you can see they are not claiming or saying that Acevedo is a D1 starting player right now. He still has some work to do.. According to the ESPN scouting report on Acevedo:

"Wherever he plays a red shirt year will be necessary to improve his athletic and physical skills."

In other words the scout who wrote the report on Acevedo thinks he is skilled enough to play at the college level but he will probably need to red-shirt and work on his game.