DE Prince Sammons (Apr 1)

Prince Sammons ..... Cincinnati Hills Christian Academy (Cincinnati, OH)
4-star ..... SDE ..... 6-8/280​

Per 274Sports:
Sammons is the nation's No. 5 strong-side defensive end according to 247Sports, but is also an offensive tackle recruit. 247Sports ranks Sammons as the nation's No. 64 player overall.
(Will add more info when more info becomes available.)

 

(Reminds me of Xerxes stretching out his hand to Leonidas in "300")​

Excepts from a great sad/glad story about Prince:

Football coach Eric Taylor remembers the day word got out about Prince Sammons, a highly recruited 6-foot-8 junior two-way lineman playing for unbeaten Cincinnati Hills Christian Academy. It happened when Sammons was a freshman, before he played a single down on the field.

"A football scout that I know was interested in some of our guys. Prince kind of stands out, and he caught the attention of the scout," Taylor said. "He asked me who he was. I said it was our water boy; he wasn't eligible to play yet.

Sammons' improbable rise from water boy to one of the most sought-after college football recruits in the country is merely the latest twist in a tale that began in Nigeria, where Sammons was known as the tall one named Prince Micheal, a manchild in the Lagos region whose heart was as big as his frame.

Sammons, a natural athlete and nimble for his size, has a 7-foot wing span and weighs 268 pounds, according to Taylor... He's been playing football two years for the two-time MVC co-champions. Prior to that, he had never heard of the sport, thinking the subject was soccer when it was first introduced in conversation.​

[Recommend reading the full story here]

 

The guy's a beast!!

 

Scout interviewed Prince Sammons' dad about his son's UT offer:

"I know Prince spoke with Coach (Brick) Haley I believe, along with Coach (Shawn) Watson and Coach (Charlie) Strong as well."

According to CHCA head coach Eric Taylor, Sammons recently presented him a list of schools of interest and surprisingly the Longhorns were listed. A school Sammons had never talked about in the past.

"I ...know he’s had some conversations with people and their thoughts and feeling about Coach Strong made him interested," [Mr. Sammons] said. "I feel that and their tradition and history has him interested and he knows historically Texas has been one of the best programs in the country and you can’t really go wrong with that."