Stephone Anthony, a 6-foot-3, 220-pound linebacker from Anson County High in Wadesboro, N.C., was elevated today from four-star status to the select five-star group by the Rivals.com recruiting website. He's one of just 26 high school players in the country to be given five-star status by the website.
It's good timing for Tech for Anthony to get the bump, considering he's one of a dozen players expected to visit the Blacksburg campus this weekend. He's considered by most recruiting analysts to be one of the nation's top 10 linebacker prospects, and top 50 recruits overall. Rivals has him rated No. 24 overall.
He's the cousin of current Tech linebacker Barquell Rivers, who also attended Anson County High. Anthony is looking at scholarship offers from Tech, Florida, Clemson, North Carolina State and UNC, but Rivals.com national analyst Mike Farrell told me last week he didn't think Florida is a major player for Anthony anymore. Here's a story I wrote Sunday about some of the remaining recruiting targets for both U.Va. and Tech, which included comments from Farrell.
