The college football recruiting hype around Briggs Cherry has been soaring in recent months, and now the Baylor School quarterback has reached elite status.
Literally.
Cherry is one of only 20 high school quarterbacks from around the nation to receive an invitation to the Elite 11 Finals in Los Angeles, where the Red Raiders senior will compete from June 17-19.
The 6-foot-4, 208-pound Cherry committed to Atlantic Coast Conference program Louisville in late January, and he was upgraded to four-star recruiting status by Rivals.com in early May, when he was also elevated to the nation’s No. 128 college prospect overall, the No. 13 quarterback in the nation and Tennessee’s fifth-best prospect overall.
He is the first Chattanooga-area quarterback to earn an Elite 11 camp invitation since former Cleveland star Chad Voytik in 2011. Voytik signed with Pittsburgh, where he spent four years before playing his final college season at Arkansas State.