What if former WPIAL Athletes Anthony Johnson and John Allen III didn't transfer?

Source: Anthony Johnson (Twitter) and John Allen III (Twitter)

Anthony Johnson is a senior football player at Cleveland Heights High School in Cleveland, Ohio. He plays at the defensive end position. Johnson has been getting a good amount of attention in Ohio for the hard and physical way he plays the game of football. He is 6''4' and weighs 240 pounds. Anthony's football team, Cleveland Heights, did pretty well during this season as they had an overall record of 7-3. You do not even need to watch much of his highlights to tell that this man will hit you hard; so hard that you might fly all the way to Nebraska. Division 1 football schools such as Syracuse, Georgia Tech, The University of Delaware, Central Michigan, Ball State and Howard University have all given him offers to play college football.

Seriously though, if Anthony Johnson started playing high school football during his freshman year, he would probably have a boat load of offers from other Division 1 FBS schools. Going into high school, Johnson was known as a basketball player that perhaps could have gotten a lot of offers from Division 1 basketball schools. Johnson can still play basketball pretty good; it's just that he learned in the high school career that he has an absolute monster at football and can make it a career for himself.

Last season, Anthony Johnson helped the WPIAL School, Jeannette Jayhawks win a WPIAL and PIAA football championship. Johnson also helped the Jayhawks go deep in the WPIAL postseason in the sport of basketball. During this WPIAL football season, Jeannette was one game away from reaching the WPIAL 1A football championship game as they lost to Rochester by a score of 27-0 in the semifinal round. Some people that are interested in WPIAL football have to think themselves if Johnson played for Jeannette this season, then would the team have been better and win the WPIAL Championship in 1A? That is something that we will never know.

John Allen III is a senior football player at Patriot High School in Prince William County, Virginia. John was named "1st Team All-Conference Defensive Back" in the football league that Patriot High School participates in. He plays both wide receiver and defensive back. He recorded a total of 50 solo tackles, 2 interceptions, 1 forced fumble, broke up 12 passes as a defensive back. Also, he recorded 323 receiving yards, 22 receptions and scored 2 touchdowns as a wide receiver.

What you have to like about John is the fact that he plays the game in a fair way and does not try to cheap shot any of the other players. If you follow John on Twitter, you can tell that he appreciates the game of football a lot. You can get a sense that the game of football has taught him a lot about life. It seems that he does not care which place he is playing football at, as long as he playing the game of football, then he is happy. This season, Patriot High School's football team had an overall record of 7-4. They lost in the first round of the Virginia High School playoffs to Madison by a score of 35-7. What is funny is that the Patriot High School football team had a better record on the road, then at home. On the road, Patriot had a 5-1 record. While at home, Patriot had a 2-3 record.

John has college football offers from Columbia University, Holy Cross and other colleges. Last season, he played his junior year of high school football at the WPIAL School, Chartiers Valley. John played better this season at Patriot than he did last season at Chartiers Valley. It makes us all think if John would have stayed at Chartiers Valley, then would the Colts have had a better record than 3-7. The Colts started the season with a 3-1 record and then they lost the final 6 games of the season. Allen might have been the number one cornerback and maybe the number one wide receiver for the Colts if he would have stayed at Chartiers Valley. It's just something about.

John Allen lll and Anthony Johnson played football well in their high school careers. Now, lets see how well they both do in college.