While most of the NC State recruiting talk has been about the two in-state 4-stars, Terquavion Smith and Breon Pass, there is another 4-star commit that may have a higher ceiling than both of them.
Earnest Ross hails from Santa Fe, Florida. and is actually the highest rank recruit that Keatts is bringing in next year. The reason you haven’t heard as much about him is that he wasn’t really on many people’s radar early in his high school career. He was thin, his coordination hadn’t really caught up with his height and despite his size, many coaches were in ‘wait and see mode,’ but not Kevin Keatts.