Interest Increasing In Fenton

Adam Fenton is one of the top linebackers in Michigan this year. He has impressive weight room and testing numbers to go along with production on the field. As a result, he is a player whose college interest is steadily increasing.

Birmingham Seaholm has a talented team coming back this year featuring several college prospects. The leader on defense for the Maples is linebacker Adam Fenton, an impressive physical specimen already drawing looks from colleges.

“Adam is a great weight room guy,” Seaholm head coach Chris Fahr said, “he is 6’2, 220-lbs and has some amazing numbers. He has a 9”2’ broad jump, he benches 335 lbs, he runs a 4.7 forty and has a 36.5 inch vertical. He has been steadily climbing throughout his career, last year he was outstanding.”

Fenton started five games at strong safety as a sophomore on varsity. Last season, he switched to outside linebacker and flourished, making 91 tackles and seven sacks. This year, he may move inside. Either way, he has a set of tools that have already made college coaches stand up and take notice.

“I’m hearing from the entire Big Ten besides Ohio State,” Fenton reported, “I’ve been on unofficial visits to Penn State, Michigan, Michigan State, Iowa, Eastern Michigan, Central Michigan, Western Michigan and Miami (Ohio).”

Iowa and Penn State in particular have shown the strongest interest in Fenton. He says the Hawkeyes began sending him letters at the beginning of his junior year and the Nittany Lions are among his top choices.

“I love the school a lot,” he said of PSU, “Coach VanderLinden is the linebackers coach and recruits my area, he left a big impression on me. It’s the history I like too, it’s Linebacker U! I loved it, it was a big school but everything was real close together.” His head coach echoed the sentiments saying, “Penn State came up and saw him and said, ‘he looks like a Penn State linebacker,’ they’re probably his #1 choice right now.”

While Fenton has yet to receive his first offer, he believes they will come after he turns his ACT score in. While the Hawkeyes and Nittany Lions are the two he is looking at for an offer, he has enjoyed his instate visits as well.

“MSU is definitely up there,” he confessed, “I talked to Dan Enos for quite awhile and I like their coaching staff. At Michigan, the new coaches seem very enthusiastic about coaching there, I see them really going somewhere.”

One x-factor in Fenton’s recruitment is his friendship with Seaholm TE Mitch Kessel, another Maple player getting many college looks.

“We are very good friends, so I think if we got offered by the same school and we like it, it would have an impact. In the end, it’s still all about where I feel like I belong and where I can have a positive influence.”

One place he has already had an influence is at Seaholm, where he will be a senior leader on a team poised to make a playoff run, and anyone questioning his abilities can take it from Fahr.

“He is a solid solid football player, when he tackles you, you know it!”