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Tyrone Swoopes: The Next Cam Newton?

Over at Barking Carnival, John Kocurek has a great break-down of Tyrone Swoopes, a five-star QB in the class of 2013 who just committed to Texas:

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I will spend the next 1,800 words telling you why, starting with this hyper-technical answer: Tyrone Swoopes is the best prospect in Texas because he is enormous and he is fast. He can throw a football very far, very quickly. And our OC loves him.

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Usually, a raw passer is a risk. In this case, he's the safe play. He can command a dangerous, championship-caliber run game in three years, you can be damned certain of that. Nobody else coming out of Texas since Vince Young can say that, and the sure-thing passer simply doesn't exist.

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