Signing Day Profile: Linebacker Corey Flagg Jr.

Dec 18, 2019

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2020 North Shore (TX) LB Corey Flagg officially became a Miami Hurricane today. Flagg is the 7th signee of the morning.

The 5-10 225 pounder is currently a consensus 3-star in the national rankings. According to the 247Sports Composite, Flagg is the #888 player nationally, #38 ILB in the country, and the #111 player in Texas.

Recruiting Story

Corey Flagg earned his Miami offer in March of this year. Right from the start, Flagg showed interest in Miami and was very receptive to what the coaches were selling. For this reason, Manny Diaz decided to bring Flagg in for a summer official visit and push for a commitment. Flagg made this trip down to Miami for his official visit in mid-June and publicly committed to Miami just a few days later. Flagg has been solid on his pledge ever since.

Evaluation

As a captain and defensive leader for defending Texas Class 6A state champion North Shore, Flagg comes from a winning program and has ingrained within him a championship mindset and work ethic that he can bring to practice and workouts day in and day out. During Flagg's junior year of high school, he was highly productive and recorded massive numbers in one of Texas football’s toughest divisions, tallying 144 tackles, 33 TFL, 4 sacks, and 5 forced fumbles in 2018. He landed on first team All-District and second team All-State for his efforts. He also won LB MVP at a loaded Opening Houston Regional in March as well.

Let’s just get this out of the way: at 5-10 and clocked at a 4.92 40 time (both recorded at the Houston Opening Regional), Flagg does not have ideal measurables. However, he plays much faster than his timed speed on film and demonstrates good short area quickness with a 4.40 shuttle. Shows fantastic ability in pass coverage and has no problem sticking with a variety of tight ends down the middle of the field and running backs in the flats, being able to read the QB and sniff out routes as they develop. He's an aggressive presence that loves knifing into the backfield and disrupting the offense before they can even get going. Plays with a ton of energy, twitch, and explosion and is a sure tackler in the open field. Great fit in the middle of a Manny Diaz defense in that he is operating with a high-level football IQ and displays terrific instincts.

The Team

Miami loses seniors Michael Pinkney and Shaq Quarterman to graduation this offseason. That leaves both starting linebacker spots open. 5th year senior Zach McCloud will most likely take one of those starting spots. The other spot will be an open competition between 2nd-year players Sam Brooks and Avery Huff, as well as Waynmon Steed, Bradley Jennings, Patrick Joyner, and early enrollees Corey Flagg and Tirek Austin-Cave.

Redshirt Probability: 7/10

Assuming Zach McCloud locks up one of the two starting linebacker spots, there will be intense competition to see who starts alongside him. Since McCloud can play both linebacker positions, everyone will be involved in the competition. Flagg is an early enrollee so he will have a better chance at earning playing time than most freshmen, but he is still starting well behind guys like Sam Brooks and Avery Huff who have been in the program for almost a year now.

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MyKidIsLoggedIn2MyAccount

Dec 22, 2019

Good old Scott Puckett was from Duncanville. Nice to see Flagg continually prove it on the field.

Dwinstitles

Dec 22, 2019

OriginalGatorHater said:
Facts. As usual D called it how it was and all the slurpers cried and talked mad schit to D, but they wouldn't man up when it ended up being true. They either ran away or moved the goal posts.

Exactly

I be up front when I'm wrong but these lol dudes be hiding when I come up being right. Every **** time or they wait till we win to go at me again.

Dwinstitles

Dec 22, 2019

Hoyacane1620 said:
Exactly. Ridiculous. This kid just won MVP of the state title game in one of the most competitive divisions of Texas football. But he’s a jag... sometimes it’s best to say nothing than make ridiculous statements like this.

Didn't Chickillo win mvp at the under armour all star game with better talent in that game? Just saying

Canesfreak

Dec 22, 2019

Dwinstitles said:
Didn't Chickillo win mvp at the under armour all star game with better talent in that game? Just saying

Not sure the point. In the right scheme, and if the staff had not destroyed his body, Chickillo would have had a different career at Miami. He has said has much.

DuffleBagYoda

Dec 22, 2019

Canesfreak said:
Que?

Shoulder pads in the pic look like hockey pads. They have a cap on the outside of the shoulder, they’ve come down like a sleeve

Canesfreak

Dec 22, 2019

tbaycane said:
Shoulder pads in the pic look like hockey pads. They have a cap on the outside of the shoulder, they’ve come down like a sleeve

Yeah. I just looked - they do look a bit like hockey pads.

BeastMode

Dec 22, 2019

Dwinstitles said:
Didn't Chickillo win mvp at the under armour all star game with better talent in that game? Just saying

Chick is a bad comparison. Chick had NFL talent and was destroyed by Al Golden who made him add 40lbs. If the didnt fatten him up, he would have had a monster career at Miami.

DuffleBagYoda

Dec 22, 2019

Canesfreak said:
Yeah. I just looked - they do look a bit like hockey pads.

At least we know he’s out there tryna hit sumbody

Dwinstitles

Dec 22, 2019

Canesfreak said:
Not sure the point. In the right scheme, and if the staff had not destroyed his body, Chickillo would have had a different career at Miami. He has said has much.

Exactly just making my point

Flagg has questions and is coming to be coached by Diaz? Get my point?

Canesfreak

Dec 22, 2019

Dwinstitles said:
Exactly just making my point

Flagg has questions and is coming to be coached by Diaz? Get my point?

Come on bro. The S&C program is apples and oranges. Way better under Diaz. And I don’t hate Diaz’s scheme like No-D’s.

Dwinstitles

Dec 22, 2019

Canesfreak said:
Come on bro. The S&C program is apples and oranges. Way better under Diaz. And I don’t hate Diaz’s scheme like No-D’s.

The scheme that got beat all year? I agree it's way better then Doritos

Canesfreak

Dec 22, 2019

Dwinstitles said:
The scheme that got beat all year? I agree it's way better then Doritos

Your hatred toward Diaz has skewed things - and trust me, I get it. But other than the last two abortion games, do you realize that we held most teams we played well below their average offense output? I still wake up in sweats asking myself why Baker didn’t have 2 safeties on the first down marker on 4th and 17, keeping everything in front of them, but overall the D played well enough to take us to the coastal. You need to focus on the other side of the ball.

Dwinstitles

Dec 22, 2019

Canesfreak said:
Your hatred toward Diaz has skewed things - and trust me, I get it. But other than the last two abortion games, do you realize that we held most teams we played well below their average offense output? I still wake up in sweats asking myself why Baker didn’t have 2 safeties on the first down marker on 4th and 17, keeping everything in front of them, but overall the D played well enough to take us to the coastal. You need to focus on the other side of the ball.

What teams did we play?

I wouldn't say hate.....I hated Golden.

This dude I just saw through quickly and the fan base is what made me dislike him more cause they were fooled. Figured fans especially our fan base was football smart.

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nycane

Dec 22, 2019

Dwinstitles said:
The scheme that got beat all year? I agree it's way better then Doritos

not just last year. in 2018 we got raped. manny cant prepare properly. its weird though because he makes good halftime adjustments

brock

Dec 22, 2019

Canesfreak said:
Your hatred toward Diaz has skewed things - and trust me, I get it. But other than the last two abortion games, do you realize that we held most teams we played well below their average offense output? I still wake up in sweats asking myself why Baker didn’t have 2 safeties on the first down marker on 4th and 17, keeping everything in front of them, but overall the D played well enough to take us to the coastal. You need to focus on the other side of the ball.

People keep blaming the offense, blame the terrible defense which imploded every time they were gifted a lead in the 4th qtr. stop propping up that mediocre sh*t like it’s untouchable

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AustinCane6688

Dec 22, 2019

Dwinstitles said:
The scheme that got beat all year? I agree it's way better then Doritos

That 'scheme' was top 15 in total defense for the second year in a row. We sprung leaks late in games because our absolutely inept offense couldn't do diddly **** and it was only a matter of time before our defense wore down

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AustinCane6688

Dec 22, 2019

Calling Flagg a JAG before he even takes a snap in college is one of the dumbest takes i've seen on these boards, and that's saying an awful lot. Kudos for @Dwinstitles for his willingness to die on that anthill.

I live in Texas now after living in Florida for almost 30 years, and can tell you unequivocally that production at the highest level of football in TX is apples to apples to doing it in FL. I have no idea why A&M or UT didn't pursue him but Herman hasn't exactly been crushing it as of late and Jimbo only took 1 LB in his class this year after taking 5 last year.

What the detractors of Flagg fail to answer is why the double-standard? Hyppolite perhaps should have been recruited due to our numbers being low at LB but he also wasn't pursued by the other big Florida schools and wound up at Maryland. Maryland just finished 109th in total defense. 109th. Why is an 'athletic freak' and 'total baller' of a LB going to a program that is 109th in total defense? Just classic local homerism at its finest.

brock

Dec 22, 2019

AustinCane6688 said:
That 'scheme' was top 15 in total defense for the second year in a row. We sprung leaks late in games because our absolutely inept offense couldn't do diddly **** and it was only a matter of time before our defense wore down

No matter how inept the offense was they STILL gave the defense leads in 5 of our 6 losses yet the defense immediately allowed the other teams to score go ahead touchdowns directly after. Being top 15 in defense is meaningless if you can’t get a stop when you need it the most.