Some context is needed here. Cannon, talent wise, in every way shape in form is a blue chip recruit. He won Beast of the East as a Freshman at Wyoming Sem. Then he unfortunately got cancer. When he finally came back from that he went to Ironman and knocked off Nasir Bailey. I think he lost in the finals. I remember hearing or reading that when he came back he wrestled with pads to protect his body. Maybe it was just in practice. So yes, talent wise he's a high level recruit but after battling cancer there were of course question marks on his health.