Jared Goff Makes Elite 11

After a series of strong performances over the course of 5 competitive days, Cal Commit Jared Goff was selected as being a part of the final Elite 11. The field of the 25 best high school quarterbacks were narrowed to down to 11, and the Bears were represented again with their future quarterback emerging as part of the cream of the crop.

The MVP Honors went to USF commit Asiantii Woulard (Winter Park, Fla./Winter Park) who was actually a late add-on to the competition in the first place.

The other Elite chosen were:

-USC Commit Max Browne (Sammamish, Wash./Skyline)
-PSU Commit (we'll see) Christian Hackenberg (Fork Union, Va./Fork Union Military Academy)
-Miami commit Kevin Olsen (Wayne, NJ/Wayne Hills)
-ASU commit Joshua Dobbs (Alpharetta, Ga./Alpharetta)
-Nebraska commit Johnny Stanton (Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif./Santa Margarita)
-Notre Dame commit Malik Zaire (Kettering, Ohio/Archbishop Alter)
-Maryland commit Shane Cockerille (Baltimore/Gilman School)
-Oklahoma State commit Luke Del Rio (Highlands Ranch, Calif./Valor Christian)
-Zack Greenlee (Stockton, Calif./Lincoln)

[Edit: Just worth throwing out, it appears Goff was right in the running for the MVP Award according to Ryan Gorcey over at BearTerritory.com.

Browne and Goff came into Sunday ranked second and third, respectively, out of the 25 quarterbacks in attendance, and while Browne helped his cause during the Pressure Cooker competition, Goff sputtered just a bit down the stretch."

Elite 11 Coach Trent Dilfer, and former player coached by Coach Tedford himself had this to say about Goff and Zach Kline, two near MVP candidates at the Elite 11 two years in a row.

""Jeff's on fire," Dilfer said. "I called him a while back, and I said, 'Well, you've got your fastball back.' Zach's a special kid, a special player, and I know he's very successful right now. I actually saw him there the other day. Jared's going to be a rock star. He's got more intuitive qualities than I know how to explain. He's special, and he was in the running for the MVP. He made one bad decision, and that cost him that on the fourth down play. That's how intense this was. It came down to really a decision here, little, tiny things. He's a rock star kid."

Congrats Jared and we can't until you step on campus!