Frost goes to Nebraska for newest QB commit
Back in his day, Scott Frost was the top-rated quarterback to come out of the state of Nebraska. Now the No. 1 player at that position in the Cornhusker State is headed down to Florida to play for Frost.
Noah Vedral, a senior-to-be at Bishop Neumann High School in Wahoo, Neb., committed to UCF on Saturday by way of a tweet and a video announcement posted by NebHSSports.com.
"I've been very careful in thinking and talking with my family and my head coach," Vedral said in the video. "We have come to a decision now. I'm really excited to say I'm ready to commit to the University of Central Florida and to play under coach Scott Frost and coach (Mario) Verduzco, their quarterback coach. I'm really excited about the opportunity to get to play. It's a fun opportunity and it's going to be an unbelievable experience."
Vedral is a multi-sport star, earning All-State honors in football, basketball and track with multiple championships in the latter. He led his football team to an 8-3 record last season, completing 108-of-176 passes for 1,527 yards and 16 touchdowns. He was also his team's rushing leader with 824 rushing yards on 135 carries for 11 more scores and had four 100-yard rushing games. He also played defense, tallying 29 total tackles.
Bishop Neumann's longtime coach, Tim Turman, is Vedral's grandfather.
"He's got a lot of ability and his capabilities of running the offense in making the reads and decisions," Turman told Husker Online, Nebraska's Rivals.com affiliate. "He's very explosive from stop to go in his first four steps and I think that showed up in our playoff game against Ogallala when he took the opening play for a 94 yard touchdown. His throwing has also really improved. He's really accurate with his throwing."
The 6-foot-2, 185-pound Vedral said previously that he feels his junior year was a major learning experience.
"Being a small school we do run the option, so I definitely have been classified as a dual-threat quarterback more often than not," Vedral said. "The things I've worked on personally over the last year have been improving the pro-style things. One of the my proudest things I've worked on is my accuracy, so it's definitely something I've improved on greatly the last two years.
"Footwork has also been big. I've been working on footwork with quarterback coaches since I was 12 and going to camps. My big focus the last few years has been making five and seven step drops and making downfield progressions with those drops. I've definitely worked a lot on those."
Other offers had come in from Navy, Air Force, Ohio, Northern Iowa, Colgate, Illinois State, South Dakota and South Dakota State. Nebraska and Kansas State were among the schools evaluating him.
He comes from an athletic family. Vedral's father, Mike, played at Nebraska from 1988-1992. So did his uncles, Jon (1994-96) and Mark (1997-2001).
There's been a sense that Vedral has been underrated in his recruitment.
"Really I think people don't think I’m as big as I am or they think I'm too small," Vedral told Husker Online earlier this spring. "Which I don't find a problem at all because I'm juggling three sports and school. I am a little underweight right now, but if you look at my family and if you look at my genetics I will put on weight and I will put on weight very easily.
"They also want to see arm strength, and I have no problem displaying arm strength. I feel like I do have the arm strength to play at the next level. The biggest thing is they just want to see me in person and size me up. So when they come out here they can kill two birds with one stone. They can see me in person and I can show them my arm is strong enough to play at the next level."
Vedral, who previously visited Orlando in March, becomes UCF's second quarterback commit, joining Dr. Phillip's Marvin Washington. The Knights now have 13 commitments in the Class of 2017, adding the majority of those in the last 10 days.
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