Downingtown East RB Drew Harris up to 4 D-1 offers

The Downingtown East Cougars have posted consecutive seasons of at least nine victories and 400 points scored, and one of the reasons for their success has been the performance of D-1 prospect running back Drew Harris.

Harris, a 6’1, 200-pound senior-to-be for the Exton-based Cougars, is up to four verbal scholarship offers from Division-1 football programs, according to national recruiting services Scout.com and Rivals.com.  Harris holds verbal offers from Illinois, Penn State, Rutgers and South Carolina. 

Additionally, the two recruiting services list 19 other D-1 programs as showing interest in the Cougars’ feature back, including, but not limited to, Alabama, Florida, North Carolina, Notre Dame, Oklahoma, USC, Virginia Tech and Wisconsin.

Harris exploded onto the scene as a sophomore, running for more than 2,000 yards and scoring 30 touchdowns as Downingtown East advanced to the District 1 AAAA semifinals.  In his junior season, Harris racked up more than 1,900 yards rushing on 227 carries.

The Cougars’ feature back enters 2011 just 30 rushing yards shy of the 4,000-yard mark for his career.  Downingtown East has produced a pair of quarterbacks with at least 5,000 career passing yards in its history (Pat Devlin, Trey Lauletta), but the yellow and blue have never produced a back with more than 4,000 rushing yards.

Downingtown East went 9-3 during the 2010 season, falling to North Penn in the District 1 AAAA quarterfinals, 49-33.  The Cougars averaged 34.8 points per game last year and are a combined 19-6 overall (.760) the last two football seasons.