Gerrell Richardson '21 Recruiting Profile

I have a goal of being a division 1 college football player.  After a successful college football career my big goal is going to the NFL combines and from there the NFL draft. My first year playing football I was 8 or 9 years of age, I played center and defensive end. Honestly I didn't enjoy it that much back then, but now looking back I most likely wouldn't be the same great football player I am today. being center taught me how to block which if I end up on the offensive side of the ball will help indeed. Every year my progression was better and better, in my second year I scored my first touchdown, my third year I scored 8 touchdowns. Going into my fourth year I became a big defensive play maker and still scored 15 touchdowns, I have always have been a leader also. A big accomplishment that same year was making it to the south east regional pop warner championship. Unfortunately we got beat pretty bad 38-6. That put a chip on my shoulder for the next year, but sadly we didn't have enough players that next year so I got asked by a coach whom was Vernell Brown that coached a team in Gainseville which were the panthers if I would like to play with there 12u team, I without a doubt said yes so I quickly became a leader for them too. We also made it deep into the season more specifically the last playoff game and lost 12-7. All that did was make me want my championship even more which this past season my last year of pop warner and "little league" football we had enough players to have a team with my Santa Fe Raiders that I love. I lead them back to the South East Regional championship game which we fought hard and we won in overtime 18-12 that was the best day of my life. Which all brings me to my freshman year of high school all my hard working in summer workouts paid off to me being the only freshman to start on varsity through the whole year so far and keep on starting. I feel like my big heart, leadership, and amazing work ethic makes me great as a player on any coaches team.