Recruiting 2007---- QB Octavious Hawkins

Joining the Minutemen this year will be 6-2, 205 pd QB Octavious Hawkins from South Broward High School in Florida. He was First-Team Miami Herald All-Broward 6A-4A. This link has an image of him and the rest of the All-Broward Team (pdf format).

He was second team All-Broward by the Sun-Sentinel. (also pdf)

The Miami Herald has two articles that mention him here and here.

Six minutes of highlight film on him is available here .

This high-school football thread also discusses him.

Hawkins threw for 1,539 yards, going 66 for 123 with15 TD's in a league that annually produces tons of I-A talent.

Welcome to UMass Octavious! Hope you have a great career with UMass.

A friend of the UMass Football Blog from Florida provided a number of links in this post.

UPDATE: One quarterback we didn't take.