Could this Erasmus Hall gradute become the next NFL star? Let’s not get ahead of ourselves but it seems like this overachiever, Curtis Samuel, is on the right track and his new town of Ohio State are taking to him pretty quickly.

Photo by Anthony Caus/ NY Post
Photo by Anthony Caus/ NY Post

The NY Post reports:

Meyer {Buckeyes coach Urban Meyer} hasn’t stopped praising Samuel since that day, smitten with the 5-foot-11, 197-pound playmaker, telling ESPN, “he stole my heart,” talking him up like a proud parent. On media day, he cut off wary reporters’ questions regarding how much Samuel would see the field.

“He’s talented and he will play this year,” Meyer said emphatically, later adding, “I love that kid, and man oh man, does he go hard.”

It often takes football prospects from the city time to adjust when they choose the nation’s elite programs, the talent level is so different. Even Staten Island defensive tackle Dominique Easley, a first-round pick of the Patriots in last year’s draft, didn’t take off immediately at Florida.

But Samuel — soft spoken and humble, hard-working and determined — hasn’t hit a wall yet. He developed confidence by challenging himself against Division I-bound upperclassmen as a freshman at Erasmus Hall, facing elite prospects on the camp circuit, receiving an invite to “The Opening,” Nike’s prestigious scouting event at its headquarters, and playing in the Under-Armour All-American Game.

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“I was very confident that my game from high school would translate to the college level,” Samuel said on media day. “Right now, I’m physical enough, I can take a pounding.

The games have yet to begin, but the hype isn’t complete hyperbole. He has forced coaches and teammates to take notice. Samuel was an afterthought when the spring began, overshadowed by more well-known freshmen recruits and established teammates who came from football hotbeds. Samuel was the Brooklyn kid few knew about, highly ranked but untested coming from a city better known for its basketball.

But he made plays all spring and so far this summer, breaking one big play after another, kept on impressing Meyer and his staff — not only with his playmaking ability and his game-changing 4.3 40 speed — but also his toughness, getting laid out one spring practice and bouncing back to deliver a hit right back. In a circle drill in which the goal is to overpower an opponent as the entire team watches, he flattened linebacker Dante Booker, drawing a wild reaction from his offensive teammates.

Read full article over at the NY Post.

We are wishing Curtis the best of luck. Do it for Brooklyn!