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Class AAA: Five players to watch

ANDREW SWEAT -- TRINITY LB

Andrew Sweat can offer a perspective well beyond his years -- and he can lay a booming hit on a ball carrier as well.

One of the most heavily recruited players in the state, Sweat is a senior linebacker at Trinity who has made a verbal commitment to Ohio State after considering scholarship offers from some of college football's heavy hitters.

Sweat's football merits are well documented, but some might not know much about the young man's existence when he takes off those pads.

He is ranked No. 7 in his class.

He is tremendously well spoken, each word exiting his mouth only after a careful thought.

And, he has his future mapped out as he's already decided -- if, of course, that NFL career does not pan out -- to go to law school and, afterward, take over his father's law firm.

"So many people are really great football players and play in college and that sort of thing," Sweat said. "But a lot of them lose sight of everything and where their future is going to take them. So many of them think they are going to play in the NFL and there just aren't that many spots, so that is why I look at things the way I do.

"My next step in life, after college football, probably isn't going to be the NFL and I realize that."

--By Colin Dunlap