Why one of Illinois' top prospects turned down scholarship offers from others to walk on with Northwestern
GLENELLYN, Ill. - Walk into the family home of Greyson Metz, and the first thing you notice is a washer/dryer covered with magnetized baseball and football cards.
There's one of little Greyson, perhaps 10, kneeling in a red jersey and cradling a football. He's wearing glasses.
"Oh, God, I'm blind," Metz jokes of his minus-7 prescription.
Blind? Or does he see something the rest of us don't?
Metz is 17 now, a senior at Glenbard West in Glen Ellyn. He's a 6-foot-3, 205-pound linebacker who was named Defensive Player of the Year in the West Suburban Conference. He was offered a full scholarship by Syracuse, Louisville, Cincinnati and Iowa, which won 10 games this fall and develops players so well, 29 Hawkeyes dotted NFL rosters to start the 2019 season.
The composite rankings show Metz as
