Our 2014 NFL Draft Primed series will run through the start of the college football season. We will spotlight players that are flying under the national radar but could become household names in the near future.
Ego Ferguson’s path to Louisiana State University was a little ‘off’ from your normal, everyday top 100 prepster. Ferguson opted to leave his home school (St. John’s Catholic in Frederick, MD) for the prep school ranks. Typically a player goes the prep school route to get their academics in order. Not Ferguson – he wanted to face the top competition that Hargrave Military Academy (not the vaunted JUCO program) offered.
Ferguson was already on the map of the national recruiting scene when he left for Hargrave but he felt facing stiffer competition would help him make the leap to the collegiate ranks. Ferguson was a well- developed strong-side defensive end in high school that ranked in the top fifty of most recruiting service rankings. Read the rest of this entry » «2014 NFL Draft Primed: LSU Defensive Tackle Ego Ferguson»