Short video commentary by Trenton Luera about how certain positions—specialists (kickers, punters, long snappers) and quarterbacks—face much harder college recruiting due to limited scholarships and timing differences. Specialists often sign late (sometimes after signing day) and programs typically take only 2–3 scholarship specialists; quarterbacks are limited to 1–2 per class and their process usually occurs earlier. The speaker encourages persistence and emphasizes exposure and relationship-building as universal requirements.
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If you play one of these positions, your recruiting process is going to be 10 times harder than anyone else. The number one is specialists. These are kickers, punters, and long snappers. Two of the biggest reasons why this is so hard is, number one is limited scholarships. Especially now with roster caps, you're looking at that most teams are only going to take two to three scholarship specialists. And the second thing that makes it so hard is that the recruiting process goes so late. For example, we're here in February right now, signing day already happened, but. But most of the specialists aren't even signed to the program that they'll be going to. So I say this to all my specialist families out there. It's going to be a tough ride. I'm rooting for you. Just stick with it. The second is quarterbacks. Again, it's a limited scholarship situation where most schools are going to take one to maybe two quarterbacks per class. The quarterback process also happens a lot earlier. Like for myself, I played quarterback. And so when I got started with my recruiting process going to my junior year, I was too late to the game. Now, although these positions are harder, the game plan doesn't change. You still need to get exposure, you still need to build relationships. But the key point is you.