It’s time for the the nation’s largest platform for Middle School athletes in the country looking to compete in high school to gain college scholarships and play at the Division I or Division II levels. The National Middle School Invitational Showcase presented by Football Hotbed is in year seven and we couldn’t be more excited about our annual gathering on one of the nation’s largest exposure platforms, FootballHotbed dot com. It all started with our Future 4 quarterback competition in 2015 and expanded to include skill players and competition on a college campus in 2016 at the University of Miami. In 2017, with the addition of the 8th grade class of 2021, the event was now complete and included every athlete on the field except specialist as lineman were added to the two-day showcase camp. There is no other camp like it in the country and that’s still true.
Last year, in 2020, we couldn’t compete at Georgia Tech as scheduled due to the on going pandemic but we held an amazing competition at Mt. Pisgah Christian School with plenty of great talents at each position, all lived streamed on our YOUTUBE channel.
This event has launched dozens of careers and provided college football resumes for some top names. The very first year of the Future 4 produced three division one players in the Top 4 of the 2019 class. Overall, 16/32 quarterbacks in the class of 2019 went on to play division 1 football. The MVP, Spencer Rattler is currently the starter at University of Oklahoma, runner up Griffin Helm is at New Hampshire (playing WR) and Dalen Menard is at Boston College. All are on full athletic scholarships and all at the Division I level. It’s truly incredible what the National Middle School Invitational Showcase has meant to so many.
In 2016, the first year of skill players and lineman, the running back MVP, Chris Tyree just completed his first year at Notre Dame, a college football playoff participant. The defensive back MVP Rashad Torrance competed this year as a freshman at the University of Florida. The overall MVP, best athlete award, went to Avante Williams who was ruled medically ineligible to play due to injury for his freshman season at the University of Miami. But he, like his counterparts all used their time at the National Middle School Invitational Showcase to prove that they were elite and
Other Division I players from the first year’s 2019 class include: Brian Mauer (Tennessee), Michael Kern (Wake Forrest), Daniel Richardson (Central Michigan), Nik Scalzo (Kentucky), Kyle Terry (Army), Curt Casteel (Harvard), Adam Ceceree (Wake Forrest) for Baseball, Peyton Brown (College of DuPage), Preston Colbert (Cornell), Deon Jones (Chardon State),
Your OFFICIAL INVITE serves as an ‘offer of invitation’.
HOW DOES THAT WORK?
The same way college offers work. They are committable as long as your spot is available. To accept your offer, pay your registration fees to attend the event. If the offer is not accepted, the spot in the competition will be offered to other deserving athletes. Space is limited and once the numbers are reached, the competition will be closed, even for athletes who have previously been offered invitations.
- TO REGISTER scroll down below…
- All payments must be complete by March 31, 2021 afterward increase fees may apply.
- There are NO REFUNDS. Please be sure to check the dates, time off from work and school and other events before accepting an invite and registering to attend.
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- Travel, Meals and Lodging is the responsibility of every family to provide these for each attendee.
- Each athlete must be accompanied by an adult 25+ of age.
- For more information, email us at info@footballhotbed.com or call 1-888-879-3396.
MEDIA
Here’s a look back at that first-ever, competition.
There are nearly 30 division 1 athletes in this photo with more pending. Easily the best collection of middle school quarterbacking talent assembled in one place during our fist ever competition.
This is what a day at the Future 4 looks like…
Day 2 is always at a local HS to complete the competition and crown the champions and MVPs
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- 2024 Future 4 8th grade class
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- Spencer Rattler & Brian Mauer at Elite 11
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- Competition at the University of Miami
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- Inside Miami’s Football Team Meeting Room
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- 2016 Future 4
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- The 2021 Class of Future 4 Finalist
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- The 2020 Class of Future 4 Finalist
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- Toledo QB Tucker Gleason a 7th grade Future 4 Winner
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- The 6th grade class of 2021 Future 4 Class
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- Drew Phillips, Phillips QB Academy
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- Evaluations on and off field
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- Official Future 4 Logo
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- Spencer Rattler (South Carolina) in 8th Grade right after winning the inaugural Future 4. With his dad Mike Rattler.
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- Rattler wins the Elite 11 MVP
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- First ever 8th grade Future 4 Finalist class of 2019
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- Dante Moore (Michigan), 2023 Future 4 Champion
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- SOL-JAY MAIAVA-PETERS (BYU)
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- Rashod Torrence 2020 DB (Florida)
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- Avante Williams 2020 DB (Miami)
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- Tucker Gleason 2020 QB Toledo
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- Max Johnson 2020 QB (LSU)
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- Micah Bowens 2020 QB (Oklahoma)
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- PJ O’Brien 2021 DB (Pitt)
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- Aaron Willis 2021 LB (Tennessee)
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- Brody Palhegyi 2021 QB (Western Carolina, FCS)
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- Nick Vattiato 2021 QB (MTSU)
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- Chris Tyree 2020 RB (Notre Dame)
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- Amari Daniels 2021 RB (Texas A&M)
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- The Gang
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- OL Mark Fox (South Carolina) v. GeMond Eaford (Oregon) 2015
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- 2021 OL Hayden Conner (Texas) offered a scholarship in 8th grade by Mark Richt
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- Jayden Marshall (Georgia Tech)
PLEASE NOTE: There are no refunds under any circumstances. We are in the midst of a global pandemic, please keep this in mind. In the most extreme circumstances the event would be postponed but never cancelled. In the instance where you cannot attend an event, a credit toward a future Football Hotbed event will be offered with notice at least two weeks prior to the event taking place.
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