2018 Recruiting Thread

[Mdot21]

I heard that Hutchinson kid absolutely dominated that game Saturday.  

yeah he pretty much wrecked that East OL all game long. He was one of the best players in that game if not the best. Certainly in that discussion.  Came in at 6'6, 266 pounds at the check ins too. He's pretty close physically to playing right away. If he was like 230 I'd say he probably redshirts, but he's got pretty good size right now to get in that rotation right away.
He's a guy that Greg Mattison identified very early on and made a huge priority. Mattison coached his dad Chris Hutchinson into an All-American way back in the day. Pops was a great player, but very undersized at maybe 6'1/6'2, 250. This kid has none of those physical limits. He's tall, big, long, and can move.
Really think he's got a great shot at jumping Carlo Kemp on that depth chart as back-up to Gary. Kemp was terrible- yet again- in his reserve role. Kemp was one of PFF's lowest graded defensive players on Michigan's defense in 2017.

[FearlessF]

Avon (Conn.) Old Farms defensive end Casey Rogers tells 247Sports he has committed to Nebraska.

Nebraska's class grows to 16 with Rogers in the fold.

[FearlessF]

Nebraska landed a big commitment on Thursday night when Miles Jones announced his verbal to the Huskers after hosting Scott Frost and other Nebraska assistants for an in-home visit.

Jones visited Nebraska the weekend before and came away smitten with the place on his visit. At the time of the trip Jones was committed to Vanderbilt, but he decommitted from the Commodores on Tuesday, leaving Nebraska left as the most likely school for his services.

The commitment gives Nebraska 17 in the class at this time and he’s the fourth commitment the Huskers have landed since Early Signing period and the third of players that visited Lincoln this past weekend.

[FearlessF]

Nebraska added more Florida speed to its recruiting class on Thursday night, picking up a verbal pledge from Mirimar (Fla.) wide receiver Dominick Watt.

The 6-foot-1, 200-pound Watt announced his pledge on Twitter on Thursday night after being visited by Nebraska coaches.

Watt is a three-star wide receiver with an overall rating of 0.8871 according to the industry-generated 247Sports Composite.

He chose the Huskers without visiting campus, but is slated to officially visit on Feb. 2.

[FearlessF]

Nebraska added another commitment on Sunday night, this time picking up three-star cornerback Braxton Clark, an Orlando native, who played at Dr. Phillips High School.

Clark picked up a Nebraska offer in December before the early signing period and at the time the cornerback was committed to Virginia Tech. The Hokies signed other defensive backs in the early period and Clark decommitted. He then visited Nebraska on an official visit last weekend.

The defender is the first pure cornerback in the 2018 class, a real position of need at this time for the Huskers.

[Brutus Buckeye]

Buckeyes nab DT Tyler Friday, right out from under Michigan's nose. 

[ELA]

Buckeyes nab DT Tyler Friday, right out from under Michigan's nose.

Wow, he was running all blue the whole time

[FearlessF]

Four-star safety Cam Jones, from Mansfield (Texas), chose Nebraska over Baylor and Ole Miss Saturday evening.

Jones visited Nebraska in December and followed up his official visit with an unofficial visit to Lincoln in January. Jones likes the coaching staff and the players on the current Husker roster.

[Mdot21]

Wow, he was running all blue the whole time

Ohio State sold him a fantasy of playing DE, after they had been recruiting him mostly to play OL. Kid is DT all day, not tall enough, long enough, or quick enough to play DE.
Plus his HS coaches did nothing but trash talk Michigan and Partridge. Lot of bad blood and butthurt in that HS and in that football league in NJ over Partridge and his domination at Paramus Catholic.

[MaximumSam]

Buckeyes nab 3 star WR Chris Olave out of California

[CatsbyAZ]

The early signing day is a godsend for Michigan State's class in light of the Nassar fallout. 20 signees who otherwise would still only be commits, and getting heavily solicited for reconsideration by all the coaching staffs who'd previously offered scholarships.

[FearlessF]

very true

[betarhoalphadelta]

The early signing day is a godsend for Michigan State's class in light of the Nassar fallout. 20 signees who otherwise would still only be commits, and getting heavily solicited for reconsideration by all the coaching staffs who'd previously offered scholarships.

You can say that, but that's only true because of the timing of this. If the Nassar fallout was in March, those same signees would still have their LOI in place in early Feb, even though they could wait several months after that. Remember, signing "day" is only the start of a signing period. Normal signing period is early February until mid-April. It's only because we're used to most recruits signing on the first day of that period that we call it signing "day". 
I wouldn't act as if this early signing period is a positive for MSU or a negative for those kids, because of the timing of something that was far outside the realm of normal recruiting decision-making. This is a black swan event, and it's silly to make too much of it.

[PSUinNC]

The early signing day is a godsend for Michigan State's class in light of the Nassar fallout. 20 signees who otherwise would still only be commits, and getting heavily solicited for reconsideration by all the coaching staffs who'd previously offered scholarships.

Nothing to say they won't be free agents in a few months, much like PSU's 2012 class, if the NCAA gets involved.