The Hunt Report: Kickoff off college all-star game season with everything to know about the FCS National Bowl

If you have been following The Hunt Report all season long, you know that scouting never sleeps. It is always scouting season, and I love when we start getting into the part of the year where postseason all-star games start announcing their player acceptances and game rosters start to take shape. 

While many are focused on the major games like the Reese’s Senior Bowl and East-West Shrine Bowl, true talent evaluators and scouts understand that the first game out of the gate starts this weekend in beautiful Daytona Beach, Florida with the FCS National Bowl.

The FCS National Bowl was created back in 2014 as two separate games: the FCS Bowl and the National Bowl. The former was catered to more prospects hailing from the FCS, while the latter was more for the prospects coming from the Division II, Division III, NAIA and USports ranks. Founded by former Franklin & Marshall football star Michael Quartey, Esq., both games were combined in recent years into one all-star event, where the players go through weigh-ins conducted by pro scouts and two days of practice that culminate in a game on Sunday Dec. 11.

I’ve gone to this event since 2014, and with this being the first all-star game out of the blocks, the attendance from scouts across the professional football gambit will be tremendous. Expect to see a lot of scouts from the NFL, CFL, USFL, XFL, IFL and ELF sprinkled about Daytona Beach Municipal Stadium this weekend. 

Keep it locked on my YouTube channel, Football Gameplan, where I will provide practice video highlights and recaps, as well as player interviews from the event. 

For the full FCS National Bowl rosters, click here.

Here is a look at some of the players to keep an eye on this weekend:

WR LaMartez Brooks

• College: Murray State
• Height: 6-2
• Weight: 208

Brooks is a very physical receiver and plays a physical brand of football. What I mean is that he’s both physical in his approach as a receiver, from getting off press coverage, to how he plays at the catch point, to what he does after the catch in terms of breaking tackles. He’s also physical on the perimeter as a blocker in the run game. The redshirt senior definitely understands where his hands are, showing comfort in catching the ball away from his body and also in traffic. He’s a quarterback’s dream with his catch radius. I will be looking to see if there is some position flexibility within his game, which will help…