A 5-foot-10, 180-pound prospect, Reggie Pearson was a first-team all-state selection in Michigan after registering 77 tackles and two interceptions as a sophomore. His film displays a hard hitting player in the secondary, but River Rouge head coach Corey Parker, a former safety at Eastern Michigan, says his star pupil is versed in multiple coverage schemes.

“He’s an ex-quarterback from little league before he came to our school,” Parker told BadgerBlitz.com. “I coach his position group and I think he has a level of understanding at that position for several different coverage schemes. I try to be a subject matter expert when it comes to coverage, because you never know what type of scheme you’re going to walk into as a college student athlete. I never want my kids to get on campus and not know something in the playbook because we didn’t expose them to it in high school.

“So I give them a wide variety of things and Reggie has a wide variety of schemes and coverages. He’s a traffic control guy back there and he gets everyone aligned. And then the last thing is that Reggie wants to hit you and he wants to hit you hard. He was already an aggressive little dude when he got here and now with the weight that he’s packed on he’s going to try and use every bit of muscle that he has to lay the wood on you. That’s the best part about him and now that’s he’s bigger, stronger and faster, he’s a great player for us at safety.”

Pearson, according to Parker, also ran a 4.55-second 40-yard dash at Purdue’s camp this summer. That would seemingly allow him to play either safety spot, or even cornerback in nickel packages for Wisconsin down the road.