For one last day, Josh Furman savored the feeling of being a high school football player. His latest signature began a new page.

"I'm excited, but then I'm not because I'm loving my high school career," said Furman, who helped lead Old Mill to a Class 4A state title in December. "I'm just having all this fun in high school. When I go to college, that's when I become a young man and really work hard."

Furman, the Capital-Gazette Communications Co-Player of the Year with Arundel quarterback Billy Cosh, sat with seven other recruits - three of them teammates - on Wednesday in the Old Mill...