People in Cali have been calling him that since last fall's playoffs. Screw Tebow. The guy reminds me of one of NU's own. Scott Frost. Size, punishing runner, and a hitch in the throwing motion.
If he would have agreed to play safety in college, many recruiting talking heads have said he would EASILY be a high 4 star kid. They loved his potential at that position that much.
As I said who knows how many pages ago in this thread. Johnny Stanton will win a bunch of games wherever he goes to school. Looks like he picked a hell of one for that prediction.
I didn't compare him to Frost, who is one of my favorites, because he doesn't seem to have the speed Scott had even though he looks like he will lower a shoulder. To me, it looks like he has a better arm from the get go. I never saw any HS video tape of Frost but Stanton to me looks like a better thrower right now.