2023 PRZPA July Two-A-Days, Mount Carmel Preview

<!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>The Mount Carmel Red Tornadoes are coming off a tremendous 12-1 season last fall including going 7-0 in the Heartland conference. A dominating offense averaged 42.6 points per game which was paired with a stifling defense that only allowed 15.6 points per game. They were unbeatable throughout the entire regular season but would end up seeing their season come to an end in the playoffs against the Southern Columbia Tigers. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>There's no shame, however, losing to Southern Colubmia, as the Tigers would go onto win their sixth consecutive state championship. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>After their 12-1 season, the Red Tornadoes are looking prime for another strong season in 2023 under head coach John Darrah. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:acf/evaluation-block {"name":"acf/evaluation-block","data":{"player_evaluations_0_player":["306929"],"_player_evaluations_0_player":"field_62ab9d62ecf2c","player_evaluations_0_override_profile_image":"","_player_evaluations_0_override_profile_image":"override-player-profile-image","player_evaluations_0_not_in_database":"","_player_evaluations_0_not_in_database":"field_62aba48cecf2d","player_evaluations_0_evaluation":"One of the top quarterbacks in the class of 2026 in Pennsylvania, Marshalek has been making his rounds this offseason on the camp series. On top of multiple college camps, he was also invited  Rivals camp series stops in New Jersey, quite the honor as that camp series stop was full of talent at the position.rnrnMarshalek has quality size at 6-foot-0 and 170-pounds. He still has plenty of room in his frame to add another 20-30 pounds as well without losing much of his athleticism. Talking about his athleticism, it gets the job done. He's a pocket-passer mostly but he has the ability to take off an dpick up yardage when needed but he'll always be a pocket passer.rnrnThe arm strength is solid, as he gets older it should improve by quite a bit so there are not many worries about his abilities from that standpoint. 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Has a nice touch on his passes with great anticipiation and ball placement. Shows the abilities to make passes to all levels.rnrnSpears is also a good athlete with strong vision as a ball carrier. Once he sees a lane open in front of him, he has a nice burst to his game that allows him to epxlode in and out of the hole.rnrnHas suffered an ACL tear in the past but it doesn't appear to be of any major concern going forward.","_player_evaluations_1_evaluation":"field_62aba51aecf34","player_evaluations_2_player":["305013"],"_player_evaluations_2_player":"field_62ab9d62ecf2c","player_evaluations_2_override_profile_image":"","_player_evaluations_2_override_profile_image":"override-player-profile-image","player_evaluations_2_not_in_database":"","_player_evaluations_2_not_in_database":"field_62aba48cecf2d","player_evaluations_2_evaluation":"A smaller running back, Diaz is listed at about 5-foot-9 / 5-foot-10 and around 150-160 pounds. That being said, that size doesn't hurst his game at all. He has good vision and does a tremendous job of bouncing to the open holes. He's elusive and shows the ability to change direction without losing much, if any speed in the process. He's also quite u0022slipperyu0022, he's not easy to bring down often breaking tackels as he looks to run through would be tacklers. Averaged 9.9 yards per run last season, finishing with just over 900 yards and 13 touchdowns on the season.rnrnHere's what [player_tooltip player_id='1156407' first='Vic' last='Castillo'] had to say about Diaz earlier this offeason.rnrnu002210.95 100M dash, 22.3 200M dash, we know speed is u003cspan class=u0022pn-player-linku0022u003eu003cspan class=u0022name-pointeru0022u003e[player_tooltip player_id='305013' first='Xavier' last='Diaz']u003c/spanu003eu003c/spanu003e ‘s game. That being said, colleges have been relatively slow to offer the young man out of Mount Carmel. 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