Typical eight graders have to worry about test, homework, and picking a high school for the following school year, but that's not the case for 14-year-old Dylan Moses.
AL.com reports that the teenager from Baton Rouge, La, was offered an Alabama scholarship over the weekend, at the Crimson Tide's Junior Day event.
Perhaps what is the most intriguing part of the story is that Moses plans to attend University Lab High School next year, a high school that is reportedly very close to LSU's Tiger Stadium. And although Alabama made an offer over the weekend, LSU beat them first by making an offer last year after Moses participated in the Tigers youth football camps over the past five years.
However, Alabama must be sold on what Moses will become, because it was willing to extend the offer. Here's how it played out, according to AL.com.
"We got the invitation to come to Alabama's Junior Day a few weeks ago and to be honest we were kind of surprised," said Dylan's father Edward Moses Jr. "When we got there, Coach (Burton) Burns took us around and introduced us to the entire coaching staff and they all seemed very interested in Dylan. They treated him like a five-star recruit."
"We met with Coach Saban after lunch and he talked to Dylan about his future and what he needed to do to achieve his potential as a student and as a football player. When he said he was offering Dylan a scholarship, we asked a lot of questions just to make sure we knew exactly what he meant. Coach Saban said the Alabama staff believes Dylan has a chance to be the best player in the country in the Class of 2017 and they were ready to offer him a scholarship. That's when the fireworks started going off in our heads."
Below is a highlight video of the 8th-grade standout Dylan Moses:
