#1 OT Xavier Nixon

bhelmLSU · Nov 18, 2008

His HS coach put a guess out there today on the order of his current favorites.

LSU, Miami, Florida, and then UNC.

islstl · Dec 19, 2008

LSU made his final 3.

Florida, LSU, Miami.

My guess is Florida.

He will announce at the all star game on the 3rd.

deuce985 · Dec 19, 2008

Has been all Florida for awhile now...

LSUMASTERMIND · Dec 23, 2008

Great Article on Nixon, seems to have a good family life.

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/preps/football/2008-12-22-nixon-army_N.htm

Fotini Nixon almost cried when she came home from a deployment to Iraq and saw her son, Xavier Nixon, for the first time in months.
"He grew like six inches, and he looked so skinny," she says. "When I left, he was a chunky monkey."
"My mom exaggerates," says Nixon, who is 6-7 and 270 pounds.
Nixon, 18, an offensive and defensive tackle at Jack Britt High (Fayetteville, N.C.), is considered the top senior offensive lineman in the country by recruiting expert Tom Lemming and the No. 3 offensive tackle by Rivals.com, but he's done much of his growing up while his parents have been in combat zones.
His father, Kenneth Nixon, is a command sergeant major stationed in Kandahar, Afghanistan, through April. Though her unit is deployed in Iraq, his mother is home for now, a master sergeant at nearby Fort Bragg. But even when both parents have been deployed at the same time and he's had to stay with his aunt or grandmother, his parents have stayed close in other ways.
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Xavier was scheduled to play in the North Carolina-South Carolina Oasis Shrine Classic on Saturday, but had to back out with all the other commitments, which include school and playing for Britt's basketball team. After missing nine basketball games and all but one practice because of football, he scored 19 points and had 13 rebounds last week in his first basketball game this season. Because Nixon plans to announce his college choice in San Antonio on NBC at halftime of the U.S. Army All-American Bowl, he also has to decide on a college soon.
He's taken an official visit to Florida and unofficial visits to Louisiana State, Notre Dame and North Carolina and talked his mother into driving six teammates for an unofficial visit to Florida.
"What's surprised me is the leadership role that he has taken on his football team," Fotini says. "Just to listen to the kids talk about him, even his peers respect him. He's just always thinking about other people. A couple of times, we've taken unofficial visits, he's brought up the skill sets of other kids on the team to the coaches
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#1 OT Xavier Nixon

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