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Let me preface this post by saying that I agree 3 star talent recruited to the right system can compete with the blue chip recruits. I believe Dino Babers is a rockstar and I’m pumped for this upcoming season.
With that said, I feel like from a positional view we are striking out badly with this class. We are taking an excess of players at positions we don’t need and avoiding or missing on positions and positional attributes (tall WRs for example) that we do need.
RB seems to be a strength of this team. Sure, Moe Neal will graduate, but with Jarveon Howard waiting in the wings and Abdul Adams with a year of eligibility after this year as well as Jawhar Jordan who I expect to burst onto the scene and other backs such as Markenzy Pierre who is serviceable and Garrison Johnson it just doesn’t seem like a position of need. I like the Baltimore duo, but I really like Tucker. I know he could play slot and Wax could play RB, but I would have rather us either taken 0-1 of those 2 and held out hope for a Jalen Berger. Even if you tell me that Wax is being recruited as an RB and Tucker as a slot I would counter and say we are recruiting too many big, plodding type backs. Taking 2 and maybe 3 in this class seems like a poor allocation of scholarships.
Our deepest position is probably Safety. We have a dynamic two deep (preseason) that doesn’t include Cam Jonas or Neil Nunn two young Florida players that could have been at FSU and Miami respectively. Those players go along with a young core of Cisco, Coley, Trill, as well as Clark and Stritzinger who both have 2 more years of eligibility. Of our commitments I might be most excited about Labrosse and Charles Bell of any of them and Hanna is not bad either but it’s just head scratching that we took 3+ Safeties in this class considering our depth and youth at the position. In my head I like to believe Charles Bell will play nickel, Labrosse is being recruited as a LB, and Hanna is the only true S, but I’m reaching to jump to this conclusion.
Once again it seems we have struck out on our big QB targets and may not even take one or will take another David Summers type. This season is going to be on DeVito and his ability to stay healthy. I was hoping a stud QB would be a priority to really lock down the most important position. I love this upcoming team but one player I’m not fully sold on just yet is Welch.
I was also hoping a big WR would be a priority. It seems we will not have a problem finding slot WRs for this offense, but finding WRs that can play on the outside with above average height (6-2, 6-3, 6-4+) seems like a position we should be addressing this class too. Meiga, Poitier, and Gowdy all fit that description. With Gowdy off the board let’s see if we can address this need as it seems we are definitely trying. Justin Barron could also be used in this role and Mahar was an excellent get at TE.
Getting elephants has always seemed to be a priority of Babers. Except... not this class We have one tall, slender OT and one either interior offensive or defensive linemen committed. This class needs less RBs/Safeties and more elephants. I’m actually alone in thinking that our DT depth for this season is fine, but even I would not argue our DT depth is good past this season. I get that it’s hard to recruit good, in-shape DTs and I like that we have morphed some DEs into muscular DTs (see Ruff and Black) but hopefully we can continue to fill out the class with elephants. It’s always nice to say in theory that we could grab a JUCO/Grad Transfer DT or RG for next season, but that’s unlikely at best.
Love the kicker we got. Always nice to get a kid ranked near the top at his position and love have a dominant special teams unit.
With that said, I feel like from a positional view we are striking out badly with this class. We are taking an excess of players at positions we don’t need and avoiding or missing on positions and positional attributes (tall WRs for example) that we do need.
RB seems to be a strength of this team. Sure, Moe Neal will graduate, but with Jarveon Howard waiting in the wings and Abdul Adams with a year of eligibility after this year as well as Jawhar Jordan who I expect to burst onto the scene and other backs such as Markenzy Pierre who is serviceable and Garrison Johnson it just doesn’t seem like a position of need. I like the Baltimore duo, but I really like Tucker. I know he could play slot and Wax could play RB, but I would have rather us either taken 0-1 of those 2 and held out hope for a Jalen Berger. Even if you tell me that Wax is being recruited as an RB and Tucker as a slot I would counter and say we are recruiting too many big, plodding type backs. Taking 2 and maybe 3 in this class seems like a poor allocation of scholarships.
Our deepest position is probably Safety. We have a dynamic two deep (preseason) that doesn’t include Cam Jonas or Neil Nunn two young Florida players that could have been at FSU and Miami respectively. Those players go along with a young core of Cisco, Coley, Trill, as well as Clark and Stritzinger who both have 2 more years of eligibility. Of our commitments I might be most excited about Labrosse and Charles Bell of any of them and Hanna is not bad either but it’s just head scratching that we took 3+ Safeties in this class considering our depth and youth at the position. In my head I like to believe Charles Bell will play nickel, Labrosse is being recruited as a LB, and Hanna is the only true S, but I’m reaching to jump to this conclusion.
Once again it seems we have struck out on our big QB targets and may not even take one or will take another David Summers type. This season is going to be on DeVito and his ability to stay healthy. I was hoping a stud QB would be a priority to really lock down the most important position. I love this upcoming team but one player I’m not fully sold on just yet is Welch.
I was also hoping a big WR would be a priority. It seems we will not have a problem finding slot WRs for this offense, but finding WRs that can play on the outside with above average height (6-2, 6-3, 6-4+) seems like a position we should be addressing this class too. Meiga, Poitier, and Gowdy all fit that description. With Gowdy off the board let’s see if we can address this need as it seems we are definitely trying. Justin Barron could also be used in this role and Mahar was an excellent get at TE.
Getting elephants has always seemed to be a priority of Babers. Except... not this class We have one tall, slender OT and one either interior offensive or defensive linemen committed. This class needs less RBs/Safeties and more elephants. I’m actually alone in thinking that our DT depth for this season is fine, but even I would not argue our DT depth is good past this season. I get that it’s hard to recruit good, in-shape DTs and I like that we have morphed some DEs into muscular DTs (see Ruff and Black) but hopefully we can continue to fill out the class with elephants. It’s always nice to say in theory that we could grab a JUCO/Grad Transfer DT or RG for next season, but that’s unlikely at best.
Love the kicker we got. Always nice to get a kid ranked near the top at his position and love have a dominant special teams unit.