The Republic's Top 10 most surprising Arizona high school football recruits in last decade

Many talented football players have emerged from Arizona high school football teams. Predicting what they are going to do after high school can be hard, can sometimes become a gamble, not only for me, but for coaches who have the responsibility for choosing the best athletes for their college team all over the nation. 
 
Some teams get severely under-recruited, whilst they set state records for recruitment. Some of these highly ranked players prove their worth all the way to the NFL . 
 
Below is a list of the Top 10 football recruits who pulled a fast one on almost everyone according to The Arizona Republic. 
 
The ten most shocking cards 
 
1. Purdy, Brock; Perry, Gilbert; Quarterback; 2018. 
 
At the end of the season The Republic redid the top 50 Arizona high school prospects for the 2018 class, and because he was still under recruited, Purdy placed into the 9th position but Solomon Enis, a Wide Receiver from North Canyon was ranked at the 1st position followed by Joey Ramos, an offensive lineman from Deer Valley at rank 2nd for the same class. Purdy, and Ramos would eventually both end up as Iowa State athletes and football players, but few can anticipate that the tenacious and ambitious Purdy would rise through college football again and the last pick of the 2022 NFL Draft to lead the San Francisco 49ers to the Super Bowl just two years into his NFL start. 
 
2. , Jordan Morgan of Marana, the OL of 2019. 
 
Prior to his senior year, we had him down for 6’8 210-pound big man at number 106 in the 2019 ranking. This year he was selected in the first round of the NFL draft, he was chosen by the Green Bay Packers having played college football for the University of Arizona. He was the rock, which was to an offense line in a team that Marana had Trenton Bourguet as their Quarterback. When his rating was published he only had a single offer from the South Dakota State. 
 
3. Isaiah Oliver, Phoenix Brophy Prep, DB, 2015 
 
In high school he was used as a wide receiver and defender but attracted the attention of recruiters only in the senior year when he was also one of the devastating hurdlers in track and field. Before the season began I had him ranked at 24 in the 2015 class. After receiving two scholarship offers from the Arizona and the New Mexico, he departs for the Colorado. He made 82 tackles and had three interceptions and after being named the first team All-Pac-12 in 2017, he would miss his senior season to be drafted in NFL 2018 draft by the Atlanta Falcons in the second round would. 
 
4. Ricky Pearsall Jr. , Wide Reciever, Tempe Corona del Sol, 2019 
 
He caught for 342 yards in his junior year breaking a single-game 6A record, but he was not receiving much attention; The Republic even ranked him 61 in Arizona high school football players in 2019. He continued playing for Arizona State and Florida and was drafted for this year to 49ers. 
 
5. John Anderson, Provo, S, 2017 Dominique Hampton, Peoria Centennial, S, 2018 
 
I had him ranked No. 21 in what was indeed a very good 2018 crop of high school football players in the state of Arizona. He nurtured in college at Washington, where he evolved into a physically impressive candidate, and joined the Washington Commanders in the fifth round of this year’s NFL Draft. 
 
6. Roy Lopez III, Gilbert Mesquite, OL/DL, year 2016 
 
Well, in high school, he played as an offense lineman and specifically a center and guard His high school ranking was by The Republic and he was ranked as 17 in the state of Arizona in the2016 class. However, he rushed on the defensiver side at college in New Mexico State and Arizona at the position of nose tackle and got drafted to the Houston Texans in the year 2021 in the sixth round. He now plays for the Arizona Cardinals, [19] a change of heart caused by [20] [Name]. 
 
7. Hayden Hatten, Football, TE/WR, Scottsdale Saguaro High School Class of 2019 
 
The Republic ranked him No. 43 in the 2019 class after transferring from Pinnacle; he was all-state as a junior. He was not heavily recruited and he wounders up in Idaho where he was a unanimous all American in 2022 as wide receiver and made the second team AP All-American last year. He was never drafted, but instead, he became a free agent joining the Seattle Seahawks team. He will have another opportunity to do the same again by disproving everyone’s prophets, as they usually term them. 
 
8. Stanley Berryhill Jr. , Marana Mountain View, Wide receiver, 2017 
 
The Republic rated him in the 90s in the Class of 2017 prior to his transferring to Southern California to play his senior year of high school. He wound up starring at Arizona and was drafted in to the NFL. Before his injury he took his talents elsewhere and now plays for the BC Lions in the Canadian Football League. 
 
9. Trenton Bourguet from Marana High School, quarterback for the year 2019. 
 
Spanish Fork’s Isaac Bott was ranked 53rd on the Republic’s list of the 2019 class but he did not receive a Division I offer and so went to Arizona State as a walk on. He inevitably was a starter there, got locked into a large quarterback room as others either got injured or left. Later when he got an opportunity to start, he proved himself for the Sun Devils. He is still with the Sun Devils/his association with Sun Devil is ongoing. 
 
10. Johnny Johnson III, Chandler, Wide Receiver, 2017 
 
Before moving up, the Pittsburgh native was rated as the number 23 prospect in The Republic’s 2017 class. Altogether, at the time, he had been offered a contract from only Nevada. Though John had a great college football career, he save his best for his final year; during his time at Oregon, he contributed 57 receptions for 836 reception yards and seven receiving touchdowns in the 2019 Campaign where Oregon clinched the Pac 12 title. He began his professional career in the NFL as an undrafted free agent for the Texans in 2022.