CFCs ‘Top High School players’: The Quarterbacks (VIDEOS)

CFC will be profiling the TOP high school / CEGEP football players from across the country. Today we hilite the QBs.

The categories will be of the following:

HIGH SCHOOL (Grade 12, 1993)
a) Quarterbacks
b) Linemen
c) The rest (skill) *will hilite some 1992 and 1993 players

CEGEP (AAA, all years)
a) Linemen
b) The rest (skill)

All must be attending school in Canada to qualify.

In this article we hilite the HIGH SCHOOL 1993 ‘quarterbacks’ positions.

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CFC ‘TOP SKILL PLAYERS’ ARTICLE

IMPORTANT NOTE: None of these QBs (including honourable mentions) have lost a regular season game this fall. However this will change friday when Terry Fox and WJ Mouat play. Also, all participated in this summers National Championship, the Football Canada Cup. Cam Canales played for Team BC as a defensive back.

Dallon Kuprowski

Ottawa Junior Riders / Myers Riders / Team Ontario East
Ottawa, ON

February 18, 1993

5’10” 170 lbs

Commitment: None
Consideration
NCAA: Simon Fraser (Burnaby, BC)
CIS: McMaster, McGill, Ottawa, Queens

Dallon is a versatile football player. He can play quarterback, punt, return kicks and play receiver or running back. In the last 2 years Dallon has played a lot of football and has won a lot of games. This fall, with no high school team to play for, Dallon quarterbacked the undefeated Ottawa Junior Riders to a Quebec Junior Football League title. The offense scored an average of 41 points per game and Dallon completed 109 of 178 passes (61.2%) for 1975 yards and 20 touchdowns. In the summer he quarterbacked the Myers Riders OVFL team and the Team Ontario East entry in the Football Canada Cup.

In 2009 Dallon was the QB for Team Ontario East U17 team that won the gold medal in Saskatoon. Dallon was chosen the tournaments offensive MVP.

Blaine Scatcherd (a former Hec Creighton nominee and CIS offensive coordinator) was Dallon’s coach with the 2009 gold medal winning team. Coach Scatcherd says “Dallon was the catalyst for everything we did on offense. His ability and his knowledge of the game were big factors in our success. We were able to install a fairly sophisticated offense in a short period of time because of Dallon.”

Football Canada Cup 2009 hilites – Team Ontario East

Drew Burko

Aden Bowman / Team Saskatchewan
Saskatoon, SK

May 12, 1993

6’4″ 205 lbs

Commitment: None
Consideration
CIS: Saskatchewan, Calgary, UBC, Toronto, York

2010 has been a great year for Drew. He was the starting QB for Team Saskatchewan that won the Football Canada Cup in July. With the championship game tied at 10 to 10 (versus Quebec), Drew lead the offense down the field with less than 3 minutes left to score the winning points. He was picked as the tournament all star quarterback. Drew has continued these winning ways leading Aden Bowman (CFC #4) to the Saskatoon 4A High School finals next week.

“Drew is an outstanding athlete, leader, and student within the game of football. He was drafted in the 2nd Round of the WHL Bantam draft by the Spokane Chiefs but decided to pursue a football career instead. He is mature beyond his years and can see the game develop as a elite level QB.” Brian Guebert (Coach with both Team Saskatchewan & Aden Bowman)

Jesse Mills

Citadel Phoenix / Team Nova Scotia
Halifax, NS

Oct 15, 1992
(Note: Nova Scotia students start school in September not January and that is why we include Jesse with the 1993 group)

6’4 225 lbs.

Commitment: None
Consideration
CIS: St Mary’s, Concordia, Calgary, Ottawa, Queens
NCAA: Idaho, Florida International

Jesse Mills coming out party was this summers Football Canada Cup. Jesse has the strongest arm of the QBs on this list. He lead his Team Nova Scotia squad to a come from behind opening game victory over the favoured Team Alberta squad. Team Nova Scotia ended up finishing fourth place.

Playing for the Citadel Phoenix (CFC #7) Jesse has won every game as a starting QB. So far in six league games he has 1778 yards passing, 21 touchdowns and 1 interception. In three of those games he has had 4+ TD performances and has sat on the bench in the 4th quarter of most of the games.

Photo Credit: Mona Ghiz

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Honourable Mention:

Cam Canales

(February 8, 1993)

Terry Fox (CFC #5) / Team British Columbia
Coquitlam, BC

Cam Bedore

(March 31, 1993)

WJ Mouat (CFC #6) / Team British Columbia
Abbotsford, BC

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FAN CHOICES:

Jason Chris (Resurrection) Kitchener, ON – Grade 13, 1992
James Fracas (Sir John A. Macdonald) Waterloo, ON – Grade 13, 1992
Nikko Stamatis (Chaminade) Toronto – Grade 12, 1993
Theo Deezar (St. Pauls High School) Winnipeg – Grade 12, 1993