Reviewing Marcell Harris's Saturday Performance at The Opening

Safety Marcell Harris from Orlando put on a show in the Nike 7ON last night on ESPNU.  According to Rivals, Harris has Florida, Florida State, and Texas as his favorites.  After watching him last night, I believe Marcell Harris would be a great addition to this year's class.  Below are a few quick notes about what he did.

• First, just looking at his height and weight measurements (6'1/207) doesn't do him justice.  Marcell Harris looked bigger than that on my TV screen.  Saying Marcell Harris has great size for a safety would be an understatement.
• Harris cut off a long pass from Texas commit Tyrone Swoopes and came down with the interception.
• He then had another INT later in the half.  Harris almost had a third after he went vertical to break up a pass.
• Overall, Harris had an excellent day for the Field Generals yesterday.  He was the best defender on a team that made highly touted QB Tyrone Swoopes look awful the whole game.

Rivals ranked him as the second-best defender yesterday($):

Harris has proven time and again that he has great instincts, especially when the ball is in the air. He had two interceptions in one game and nearly a third. What's also impressive is that he has great size for a safety, but moves well and is smooth in coverage.

 Here is what he said when asked($) what he thought about possibility of changing positions to linebacker:

"Now people are looking at me different," said Harris "They're blogging right now about me, so I'm in their head that I'm a free safety all the way. I just want to come out here and prove myself again and not listen to the critics and the haters or whatever you want to call them. I'm out here doing my thing. I always feel that I have to prove I'm one of the best safeties in the nation there's a lot of good guys out here at that position. I feel I'm a wide range safety. I try to come out and be like Sean Taylorthat's my favorite player. Me and him have big size and have people critiquing us saying we're linebackers." 

Gator Recruiting News - 6/22

Is VHIII coming to Florida?

VHIII List Three Florida Schools As Favorites.  5-star CB Vernon Hargreaves III tells Josh Newberg of 247Sports($) that USF, Florida, and Miami are his favorite three right now.  He also said that he hasn't eliminated anyone yet.

Florida In Top 2 For Scott Pagano.  In a InsideTheGators.com interview($) with Rivals250 DT Scott Pagano, he listed Florida and LSU as his favorites.

"My top two favorites right now are LSU and Florida," Pagano said. "But you know, things can change."

In the article, he said that he would take trips to Alabama, Clemson, and Florida State (along with Florida and LSU) next month.  Right now, Florida has one defensive tackle verbally committed for 2013, Caleb Brantley.

At the Rivals Challenge today, Pagano showed up to the camp rocking a Gators hat.  Hopefully that is a good sign of things to come.

Side note:  Along with Pagano, there are three Rivals250 players in the state of Hawaii.  I'm impressed for such a small state.

More From Rivals100 Challenge.  Only one Florida commit (DT Caleb Brantley) will be competing this weekend in Atlanta at the Rivals100 challenge.  However, UF targets like safeties Leon McQuay III, Marcell Harris, and Demarcus Robinson will be at the camp.