The University of Cincinnati football staff reached for a peach in Georgia and have pulled out a gem. Jaqualin "Qua" Birdsong visited UC's spring scrimmage Saturday and committed to play for Scott Satterfield early Tuesday morning.
The 6-foot-3, 200-pound linebacker is a heat-seeking-missile four-star pass rusher with a composite rating on 247Sports.com of .9287. That makes Birdsong the highest-rated UC recruit ever, not just in the Satterfield era, since the evolution of the rating system.
Birdsong chose the Bearcats out of a final five that included Arkansas, Michigan, Miami (Florida) and Central Florida. Georgia Tech, North Carolina State, Notre Dame, Ole Miss, Pitt, Southern Cal and Virginia Tech were also on his offer list.