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.
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