A missed call, no cell phone for four days, and an interrupted church service: How Edd Guerrier committed to Rutgers football
Edd Guerrier inadvertently made Rutgers football head coach Greg Schiano wait four days before offering the Florida running back. Seems that Rutgers and Schiano thought the unranked recruit was worth the wait.
Last week, Guerrier’s Port Charlotte High School football program participated in a lock-in event where they didn’t have access to their cell phones from Wednesday through Saturday. The team-building event was supposed to help build continuity and community within the program and cell phones were seen as a distraction. They weren’t allowed.
Shortly before the lock-in started, Guerrier received a call from Schiano that ended up going unanswered for those four days.
Guerrier wasn’t even aware that the Rutgers coach had called until Sunday, when he received another call from Schiano. After five days, Schiano was trying Guerrier back again.
It was a call that Guerrier said interrupted the end of his Sunday church service.
He stepped outside for the FaceTime call where he was given his second Power Five offer. He committed to Rutgers that afternoon and made it public on Sunday evening.
“If I’m going to be honest, it wasn’t’ a quick process,” Guerrier told Rutgers Wire on Monday night.
“I’d been talking with the coach for four months, been building a good relationship. It got to the point he’d Facetime me. It wasn’t something I thought of overnight.”
A 5-foot-9 and 192-pound running back at Port Charlotte High School (Port Charlotte, FL), Guerrier is a physical runner who is difficult to take down. He has impressive speed once he gets to the second level.
His numbers from last year are impressive. During the 2022 season, he had 1,450 rushing yards and 20 rushing touchdowns in 10 games for Port Charlotte.
Adding to all this is that Guerrier committed to Rutgers without having ever visited the program. That all will change on September 3 when he takes an official visit for the season opener against Northwestern.
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— Edd “G2” Guerrier (@EddGuerrier) July 7, 2023
It is a bit unusual for sure, but Guerrier said that relationships won out in his recruitment. He said that he had a strong relationship with running backs coach Damiere Shaw as well as Schiano.
“I was feeling the good relationship with coach,” Guerrier said.
“I feel like my recruitment was off where I had the best relationship, And I had no problem making my choice to commit based off of that without ever being there.”
Guerrier has some family in New Jersey, including a sister who lives in the state along with an uncle. At Rutgers, he hopes to major in sports business.
A business degree, he said, is something that is versatile and can help him when his playing career is over. He would potentially like to get into personal training and open his own fitness facility.
He is definitely an under-the-radar player. Guerrier held just one Power Five offer (Louisville) prior to this weekend. At the time of his commitment, he was unranked by any of the four major recruiting services.
He also held offers from Bowling Green and South Dakota State.
