Scouting Report: Norman North
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Mustang 49, Norman North 48 Mustang (2-2) ended up on the right side of this Friday-night barnburner to open district play. For the Broncos, the win establishes a great start headed into meaningful games, but for Norman North (3-1), a…
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Mustang (2-2) ended up on the right side of this Friday-night barnburner to open district play.
For the Broncos, the win establishes a great start headed into meaningful games, but for Norman North (3-1), a loss headed into a tough stretch of games means the Timberwolves will have to work harder to catch up. Below is a list of the most outstanding prospects from Norman North during its game against Mustang:
Gavin Frakes Gavin Frakes 6'4" | 210 lbs | QB Norman North | 2022 State OK | Norman North ’22 |
6’4″ QB | Commitment: Princeton |
Frakes had a game for the ages Friday night, when he passed 21-of-29 against Mustang for 392 passing yards and four touchdowns and tacked on 186 rushing yards and one touchdown on the ground.
Frakes shredded Mustang’s defense. Through the air, the born playmaker was timely hitting his targets. He got into a rhythm early and was able to consistently find open receivers between levels, distributing a crisp, pinpoint throw to share with his teammates.
On a few occasions, Frakes was forced into making a play while escaping traffic, but he did so masterfully when he had the chance. The best facet of his game, in fact, was probably his ability to deliver a good ball while handling serious pressure in his facemark, often being toppled by a defender before the ball arrived to its destination.
Frakes’s passing success made it all-the-more possible to make plays with his feet, and he took full advantage of this. The senior forced the second-tier defenders into a bind by playing so excellently in the option and gathering big chunks of rushing yards, that he was later able to exploit the defense rolling out on pass plays, such as he did at 2:26 of his game highlights:
Week 4 vs. Mustang
-21/29, 392 pass yards, & 4 TD’s
-72.4% completion, 0 interceptions
-18.6 yards per completion
-22 rushes, 186 yards, & 1 TD
-8.4 yards per carry
-578 total yards and 5 total TD’s@NNCoachJones https://t.co/Op3oVBXFjH— Gavin Frakes (@gavinfrakes) September 25, 2021
Brayden Dorney | Norman North ’23 |
6’0″ ATH | Not committed |
Dorney is fast — like, fast.
He caught seven passes for three touchdowns and 105 yards. The junior can be utilized in a variety of ways, but North needed not to use him frequently on double moves or sharp breaks; instead, the Timberwolves let Dorney do what he does best: burn the secondary.
Though he had numerous, perhaps better plays, Dorney was especially successful on one red-zone play in the second quarter: Dorney glided pre-snap before bursting out of the slot on a seam straight to the goalpost. The Timberwolves ran play action same-side, which put the safety in a bind; he chose wrong and bit on the run, leaving Dorney wide open in the back of the end zone for an easy completion for Frakes.
Dorney also came up big in crunch time, including a catch to put the Timberwolves in field goal range that required Dorney to come back towards the ball and drop to his knees to snag it.
-3 touchdowns -7 receptions -15 YPR https://t.co/Hw9hsla8SW
— Brayden Dorney (@BraydenDorney) September 25, 2021
Cason Cabbiness | Norman North ’23 |
6’2″ WR | Not committed |
Cabbiness scored once on nine receptions for 209 yards.
The tall, strong receiver runs sharp routes and is intuitive about angles, breaks, and stemming from the line. He busted one corner so harshly in the fourth quarter that I thought he ran a wheel route from the inside, but after film review, it appeared he just broke the defender inside on a fade before stemming back across his body with yards of room for Frakes to drop the ball.
Like Dorney, Cabbiness also came up big in the clutch for the T-Wolves, playing some of his best ball when his team was down three scores.
Game 4
Rec-9
Rec yards-209
Td-1
Yards per rec-23https://t.co/fEZyM8Y6Ri— Cason Cabbiness (@cason_cabbiness) September 25, 2021
Chapman McKown Chapman McKown 5'8" | RB Norman North | 2023 State OK | Norman North ’23 |
5’8″ RB/ATH | Not committed |
McKown went for 182 all-purpose yards against Mustang. He scored once.
The speedy back routinely made defenders look foolish, bursting out of the fray for big gains while they nipped at his heels. Although a few Broncos were able to get hands on him on these occasions, he was too fast, too shifty to grab.
He can also split out to the inside, and he came up with a huge catch on an out route in the fourth quarter. On that play, McKown caught the first-down pass, but chose to gamble; rather than getting out-of-bounds to stop the clock, he instead turned the 10-yard play into a huge gain, breaking between a pair of defenders on the sideline before being brought down on the other end of the field out of bounds.
-46 carries
-435 rush yards
-9.5 yards per carry
-45 receiving yards
-5 TDs
3-0https://t.co/pFgdiiOxa3— Chapman Mckown (@ChapmanMckown) September 19, 2021