The board continues to fill out. There were a number of offers made over the last 2-3 weeks that I think have a good chance of leading to commitments this summer.
Here are the remaining open spots that I’m most confident about:
1 RB
0-1 TE (not sure if this depends on whether Wake lands top target Ben Bresnahan)
1 outside receiver (would a 2nd be possible?)
1 slot receiver
1 OL
1 DE
1 safety
1 slot corner
1-2 outside corners
Then it gets interesting. That would fill up all of the remaining scholarships, plus require a couple of early graduations. So we’ll have to see whether the staff intends to push beyond that number this spring /summer, or wait to use any spots added via attrition in the nerve-wracking December/January end game.
I’m seeing less focus on Georgia than last cycle, but it’s still the single busiest state for Wake. Just under one third of the recruits that I’m tracking. There’s more focus on Florida this cycle (all parts) than any time since Clawson’s first full recruiting cycle. So it will be interesting to see what comes of that given how tough everyone expects Florida to be this year with all of the new head coaches. But overall it’s the same “inside out” philosophy where the staff starts by blanketing NC, SC and Atlanta. Then extends out to DC/DMV, South Georgia and North Florida. Then they cover outer areas like Kentucky (two offers yesterday), Tennessee, South Florida and maybe even up into New Jersey a little.
I was surprised when Wake offered two WRs from update NY - Paul Woods (Buffalo, NY) and Jalin Cooper (from a small town between Rochester and Niagara Falls) - but both have visited recently and so I’m considering them to be legitimate targets. Woods was in yesterday.
No position has been busier with offers than WR. I’m a little surprised at that given that Wake just took three in the last class, but for a while I was having trouble keeping track of all of the WR offers.
In the past month, top target TE Ben Bresnahan has added offers from Tennessee, NC State, Pitt, Utah and Mississippi State. I think that Wake remains very much in the hunt. Probably still in the lead.
Sam Hartman’s official measures from The Opening-Atlanta: 6’1 / 178.