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Anthony Taylor

Linebacker/Running Back/Running Back

2027 Class

6'2" Height

200 Weight

Litchfield School

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Anthony Taylor is a 6'2" Linebacker/Running Back/Running Back in the 2027 class. Taylor attends Litchfield in Minnesota. Taylor's Player Profile was created on March 2, 2025. Subscribe to Prep Redzone to see where Anthony Taylor is ranked and what our scouts have written about them.

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Anthony

Taylor LB/RB/RB

Class

2027

Height

6'2"

Weight

200

HS

Litchfield

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MN

Anthony Taylor

Our final Top 25 Top Newcomer of the PRzMN 2027 Ranking’s Update, Litchfield’s sophomore sensation Anthony Taylor is...

Written by Oliver West

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Oliver West

Prep Redzone Lead Scout

Our final Top 25 Top Newcomer of the PRzMN 2027 Ranking’s Update, Litchfield’s sophomore sensation Anthony Taylor Anthony Taylor 6'2" | 200 lbs | LB/RB/RB Litchfield | 2027 State MN is also one of the MVPs and biggest stock risers from the 2024 prep football season. Week after week, PRzMN was publishing eye-catching stat lines from the Dragons‘ stud sophomore RB, so it’s easy to imagine that I came into Taylor’s evaluation ready to watch some broken tackles and big runs. Well, I did see some good reps as a RB, but I was more blown away by Taylor’s defensive film. Lining up a yard or two behind the MLB as a hybrid ILB/SS, the 6’2, 200 lber. is absolutely one of the rangiest defensive prospects I’ve watched in the past few years. It looks like his job is to “see ball, get ball”, and boy is he good at it.

Taylor’s play speed and range, along with his motor, combine for a true sideline-to-sideline defender who takes great angles to the football and can close on and tackle 1v1 and in space with lethal effectiveness. He triggers on ball carriers like he was shot out of a cannon and gets vertical and closes with serious pace, meeting RBs and QBs at or behind the LOS. He instinctively works and slips into passing lanes around the hook/curl and returned an interception for six in 2024, nearly returned a kick for six last season, and is a good tackler who sticks RBs with good technique and halts their momentum to negate extra gains. He takes great angles to the football, cutting off RBs at the LOS from a high safety position, and the 0-60 acceleration and amount of ground he can cover in a blink makes him a TFL machine in run support. I love how he can drop his hips and mirror a ball carriers movements when tracking and closing on a RB’s hips. Taylor gives me big Hutchinson grad and current Minnesota Golden Gophers LB Alex Elliott vibes, and I’d be pumped if his recruiting arc is similar. Litchfield is going to make some noise next year, just like Taylor could make some noise on the recruiting trail.

Written 9 months ago