All-Metro Special Recruiting Report: Quientrail Travis (Minneapolis North-2020)
I truly believe that there wasn’t a more dominant defensive player in the state of Minnesota during the 2019 prep football season than Minneapolis North’s Quientrail Travis. Playing for the best high school team in Minneapolis or St. Paul and…
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Continue ReadingI truly believe that there wasn’t a more dominant defensive player in the state of Minnesota during the 2019 prep football season than Minneapolis North’s Quientrail Travis. Playing for the best high school team in Minneapolis or St. Paul and one of the best 2A teams in the state, Travis could not come close to being stopped all season as he notched 83 tackles, an absurd 21 TFLs, and 17 sacks from his DL position. This dominance resulted in Travis being a unanimous All-Metro selection (MNFootballHub & Kare11), and despite every team basically setting their offensive blocking schemes around big #50, Travis could not be denied from offensive backfields and was a force to be reckoned with as North dominated all season up until a heartbreaking loss in the 2A state championship to perennial champions Caledonia.
Big #50 is a tank.Despite the state championship loss, there is still more than a lot to be excited about when looking at Travis as a potential college football recruit. He stands at 6’3 and weighs 275 pounds, and despite his dominance has surprisingly just started playing football his freshman year of high school. He was also a two-way starter for the Polars for multiple seasons, and easily could play on either side of the ball in college. I was more than excited when I was lucky enough to land an interview with the 2019 All-Metro honoree, and would love to increase the exposure of the Northside product who hopes to compete at the D1 or D2 level. There isn’t a doubt in my mind that the senior has the physical tools and ability to succeed at any level of football, and after interviewing Travis I found myself even more in support of the 2020 graduate, He’s a smart and interesting young man and I hope he finds a great fit for himself in college. Enjoy!
NFN: Hello and thank you for your time, Quientrail. Start us off by introducing yourself to our readers as well as tell us about North’s 2018 season last year.
Travis: “I’m a good person. I care about everybody’s feelings and I’m a person you can trust and count on. I’m from Chicago Heights, Illinois but move back and fourth from Chicago and Minnesota. Some fun facts is that I like to play different sports when I have time and I like to play video games. I love football because it helps me take my anger out on people and I’d like to become a NFL player or something like that. Im am 6’3 270lbs. I started playing football when I was little but I didn’t start playing for a team until freshman year. My junior year season in ‘18 we had some great players but some of our players was hurt and it kinda brought us down. Some highlights (of my time at North) is to be playing with some players who can go somewhere with their football career and some lowlights is to make it to the championship and not win it. When we lost to Barnesville (in ‘18) I told everyone on the team we got to stick together and come harder next year. I learned to never give up even if you losing by a lot don’t give up on anything. My season was great and all 4 years of my high school career I played my heart out for every game and stuck together with my team.”
NFN: Well said. Explain the 2019 season in our words, as well as some of the keys to your dominance this season as an All-Metro performer.
Travis: “Our expectations (in 2019) was to bring back a state championship but unfortunately we didn’t get one. We built off ‘18 by staying in the weight room and doing some off season training to stay in shape. It’s a great experience playing for North where a star Tyler Johnson played at and it feels good to be a Polar. This North program is something special we getting a lot of talent coming in each year.
#50.I really didn’t expect the All-Metro honor, I just got to move fast off the ball and try to get to the QB. I just use some of my moves so they can’t get a pass off. First 8 games of the regular season we played: St. Paul Johnson, Minneapolis Southwest, Minneapolis Henry, St. Paul Como, Minneapolis Washburn, St. Paul Central, St. Paul Highland Park, and Richfield and them games went well we played hard and kept it going. The playoff games was getting a little hard and we kept getting down but we start coming back and winning because we never gave up we believe we could win. State championship game our QB was injured for a long time due to a shoulder injury so he couldn’t throw the ball as far as others so we had to run the ball or have somebody else to pass the ball on a trick play.”
NFN: What’s up with recruiting? After a huge season like yours, have you been in contact with a lot of schools? What are you looking for in a college?
Travis: “I’ve been contacting colleges and sending them my film but I wanna play D1 or D2 football. I haven’t been to any camps but I been working in the off-season with my team to stay in shape. My recruiting process is going good not that many offers but coaches looking at me. I’m looking for a college team who never gives up and stay together and believe in themselves. I can offer my hard work and never giving up on them and play as a team. . I’m just looking to get more offers and do what I go to do to play college football.”
Stay tuned as the Northside stud gears up to make his official decision coming up in 2020! He was a fun one to watch and Minneapolis North will definitely miss him. 2019 Regular Season Hudl: http://www.hudl.com/video/3/9983304/5daa65feb018da0d403a7b1e