MD WR Dont'e Thornton Jr

#1

Ron Swanson

Offense Wins Championships.
Joined
Mar 1, 2012
Messages
38,150
Likes
196,712
#1
htz7lewt6wkq4p8feaog


  • WR
  • HEIGHT 6-4
  • WEIGHT 185
  • HIGH SCHOOL Mount Saint Joseph
  • HOME TOWN Baltimore, MD
  • CLASS 2021
Dont'e Thornton, Mount Saint Joseph, Wide Receiver

Dont'e Thornton Jr., 2021 Wide Receiver - Rivals.com




One of the top WR's in 2021 class was on campus this weekend. Currently a PSU commit.
 
#2
#2
Dont'e Thornton has been committed to Penn State for almost five months, but that didn’t stop him from visiting Tennessee for the first time Friday after he received a scholarship offer from the Vols in April. He’s already planning to make the trip again. The four-star Class of 2021 wide receiver from Mount Saint Joseph High School in Baltimore said Tennessee made a strong first impression on him Friday and Saturday during his visit with the Vols, and he’s intrigued by them despite his commitment to the Nittany Lions.

“I liked it a lot. It was good as a whole, overall,” said Thornton, who’s ranked the No. 41 overall prospect and No. 6 wide receiver in the industry-generated 247Sports Composite for the 2021 class. “The facilities, how big they were and the way they looked, that surprised me.”

The 6-foot-4.5, 185-pound Thornton said he “was coming down to see how it was” after learning of his offer from Tennessee almost two months ago. He said Joe Osovet, the Vols’ director of programming for football, has been in contact with him over the past couple of months and made it clear they’re high on him. “He said they’re very interested in me,” Thornton said of Osovet. “I’m one of the top receivers they’re recruiting in my class, and they want me there.”

His trip to Knoxville this weekend, which primarily allowed him to attend Tennessee’s “Rocky Top Cookout” on Friday evening, gave Tennessee head coach Jeremy Pruitt and wide receivers coach Tee Martin a chance to tell him the same thing. “(Martin) said that I’m a very good player. He said I’m very talented and they’d love to have me play here,” Thornton said. “I talked to Coach Pruitt (on Friday), too. Mostly everybody was saying the same thing — that they really like my skill set and they’d love to have me here. “They let me know that they’re in the rebuilding stage, but by the time I get here, it’ll be better.”

Thornton said he spent time with Osovet, “a few other recruits and some other coaches,” along with Vols senior wide receiver Marquez Callaway, in the hours leading up to Friday’s cookout. The laid-back environment of the cookout gave Thornton a chance to get to know some of the other Tennessee targets in attendance, along with members of the Vols’ staff. “It was fun,” he said. “I met a lot of people that I never knew before from different places, so it was cool. It was a mix. I was with some players and some coaches. There were some games. … Then, we went on a little scavenger hunt.”

After seeing for himself what Tennessee has to offer, he said he’s intrigued by the Vols for multiple reasons. He admitted the opportunity to play in the SEC is one of them. “Being in the SEC, that’s one of the main things,” Thornton said.

He said West Virginia is the only other school he has visited since announcing his commitment to Penn State. But he’s still exploring other options despite his commitment, and he said he now expects to return to Tennessee in the coming months.

“I sure will be back,” Thornton said. “We will be coming back down for a game, or probably next month for one of the practices.” Thornton said he doesn’t have any other trips planned “right now.” But he expects to continue taking visits, and he said he’s “keeping an open mind” about the other schools pursuing him. “Me looking at the verbal commitment, I’m just letting it be known that I really can see myself being there,” he said of Penn State. “But I’m just keeping my options open and seeing what other coaches have to offer, too.”

-247
 
#14
#14
A top-50 prospect nationally in the 247Sports Composite, Thornton is a former Penn State commitment who reopened his recruitment on Aug. 1. The 6-foot-4.5, 185-pound Thornton, who plays at Mount Saint Joseph High School in Baltimore, visited Tennessee for the first time in June after getting an offer from the Vols in April, and he most recently returned to Knoxville on Feb. 1 for one of Tennessee's junior days. He has received offers from at least 25 schools, and he recently named a top 12 that included the Vols. Three of the four current predictions on the 247Sports Crystal Ball still point to Penn State as the favorite to land Thornton, while Notre Dame, Oregon and Tennessee are among the other teams in the running for him.
247
 
  • Like
Reactions: Vol8188
#15
#15
Current commits and players have publicly and privately been recruiting other major targets like Mims, five-star linebacker and fellow Georgia native Smael Mondon and top-50 overall wide receiver Dont’e Thornton (Baltimore). In-state targets Junior Colson and Dietrick Pennington have also been priorities.
- Athletic
 

VN Store



Back
Top