Name: Andrew Keller
Position: TE
Height: 6'6"
Weight: 210lb
Other Measurables:
NCAA Football 14 Freshman: 74
NCAA Football 14 Potential: 95
Player Comparison: Dallas Goedert
Significant Impact: RS Fr. Although the room is full, he will be the best all around tight end (blocking/receiving) on the roster after he gets acclimated to the program. He plays early.
Attributes: [Stretch][Freak][Jack of all trades]
Areas of Improvement:
He is skin and bones right now. He will need to put on 30 lbs to really compete through the gauntlet of the Big 12.
Thoughts:
There is a reason why I am writing this guy's bio before a lot of the four stars. We see this with a few guys every cycle. One team offers a kid who nobody was really looking at. Then, teams do their due diligence to check out the kid to see if he is worth pursuing. Quite often, a couple of other schools will offer the kid, but it will only be about 4 or 5; most teams won't want to get involved with the rat-race for a guy they may think is replaceable.
But ever so often, there comes a guy who IS NOT REPLACEABLE that somehow slips through the cracks. Once one team offers him, EVERYONE begins to offer him.
Andrew Keller is one of those cases.
Iowa State was the first P5 to offer him on May 2nd. Hours later, Michigan State offered.
May 5th, Hok offered, then Minnesota, then West Virginia ALL IN THE SAME DAY.
Virginia Tech would offer. Indiana would offer and Texas would offer!
This guy was on fire!
He only OVd two schools: HOK and Iowa State. The rest is history....
So what happened, why did everyone offer all at once?
Did he not release his hudl until May? No (though he did play in the spring).
Did he have grade issues? No, he's a great kid and great student
It's because Iowa State scouted him for over a year when no one else did, they offered him and others followed.
Andrew Keller may be the best tight end that has ever committed to Iowa State. He is an exceptional blocker, but where he really excels is as a receiving threat. At his size and with his speed, he plays like a wide receiver. He will be exceptionally difficult to defend by the average P5 linebacker. Teams will need to defend him with safeties, which will open up the long ball.
There is a specific play in Week 4 of his Junior year where he catches the ball, makes an athletic move, gets on his horse and races to the endzone for a touchdown. That play alone could have earned him scholarships. It shows how dang dynamic he is.
He is an EXCELLENT prospect and you should be ELATED that he is a Cyclone.