Alabama, Florida State offer scholarships to 6-foot-7, 370-pound 8th grader
Kiyaunta Goodwin hasn't even started high school yet, but he's already picked up nine scholarship offers.
Alabama and Florida State are the latest colleges to make offers to the 14-year-old offensive lineman from Louisville, who stands 6-foot-7 and weighs 370 pounds. Kentucky, Georgia, Louisville, LSU, Cincinnati, and Western Kentucky are among his other offers, according to Justin Sayers of the Louisville Courier Journal.
Thankful to receive an offer from the University of Alabama @Aspirationsgym @RivalsDave @SWiltfong247 pic.twitter.com/xfkl1sOSDZ
— Kiyaunta Goodwin (@K_Goodwin2022) June 17, 2018
Blessed to receive an offer from Florida State University @Aspirationsgym @RivalsDave @SWiltfong247 pic.twitter.com/EHq2EsXodT
— Kiyaunta Goodwin (@K_Goodwin2022) June 16, 2018
A feature on Goodwin by Bleacher Report's Adam Kramer states that he can leg press more than 1,000 pounds and bench press 315 pounds.
"I've been blessed to work with a lot of kids who are genetically blessed, but he's different," Goodwin's trainer, former Louisville player Chris Vaughn, told Kramer. "He's the 1 percent of the 1 percent. I've talked with coaches who have told me he's going to be the No. 1 player in the country and the No. 1 draft pick."