I hope he has a stellar career and earns himself an oustanding degree!
Also, I can't help wondering if his choice to walk-on in Knoxville may have hurt his potential to earn a scholarship at a school with more prestige than TNT.
After all the incredible performances High delivered, I was suprised that he didn't earn a scholarship for FBS. It felt as if he was being disregarded for some reason, but there is always a reason and the scouts know that they're doing (most of the time)...
We did get Josh Smith from the same high-school, but there was another player on that time I really wanted to see in 'Pantone 151'. I think his name is 'Davis Howell III' or maybe just 'Davis Howell'
He did some amazing things and seemed to have the physique (6'1" 191lbs) of a potential D-1 athlete, but his pitfall may be the less-than-attractive 40 time of 4.75s.
Despite the forty time, he was able to produce an incredible career with 358 total catches for 4,702 yards and 59 touchdowns (not including all-purpose #s) with crazy season stats;
a freshman year with 26 catches for 349 yards and three touchdowns
a sopomore season where he caught 84 passes for 1,110 yards and 13 touchdowns
a junior campaign saw him catching 105 passes for 1,424 yards and 19 touchdowns
a senior performance where he compiled 143 catches 1,947 yards and 22 touchdowns -
including a senior year State Championship victory that saw him catch 15 passes for 172 yards and two touchdowns, as CAK beat Milan 48-14 (he played the entire playoff run with a cast protecting a broken thumb, suffered in CAK's regular season finale - a loss to perrenial high-school juggernaut the Alcoa Tornadoes 31-28...
I would have never imagined the person who breaks the national record for career reception did not have an offer from any major college program - the largest to offer was Duke!