Kirk Merritt

We like him. It is my understanding that he is TAMU to lose.

Think it's the opposite. He wants to play receiver, not running back.

He's primarily looking at schools that run spread offenses: A&M, Auburn, Oregon, etc.

He would make an impact at LSU at multiple positions. He would be a first round pick at cb with our coaching.

His dad basically begged for an lsu offer just so they could be disinterested.

No begging needs to be done for a kid that lights up the sparq event. Believe what you want, but he was bound to get an offer as soon as they saw him in person.

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He's not going to be a rb.

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Saw him for the first time in person last night. Merritt looked much bigger than I'd thought he'd be he's listed at what 5'11 206, he looks more 5'11-6'0 210-215. To me he's built like a RB, moves like a RB, and looked to be more into the game when he was a RB.

Once he gets into a college weight room he's only going to get bigger. I think he ends up as 220-225 lb back who catches a ton of balls out the backfield.

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By the way, Will Matthews is the rb for Destrehan and is pound for pound the most underrated football player in the state. He does not have the measureables that people will drool over, but he can ball.

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I agree, he has to be a grade risk or something to only have small schools looking at him. He's short 5'9/5'10 but he's not small 200+ lbs. He just doesn't have top end speed but he's Destrehan's workhorse.

would love to see him playing safety at LSU or would be an amazing LB at 230lbs.

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This board needs to atop projecting players like him at every position.

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Thanks message board mall cop!

The nerve of people on this board to speculate about what position a recruit will play once they get to college and grow for 3-4 years. Don't they know that whatever position rivals projects you at or whatever position you play in high school you're stuck playing that position forever.

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We have safeties

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Yep cause you never see guys who played WR in high school switch to safety. I'm looking at you Ricky Jefferson, ironically also from Destrehan.

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do not need undersized lb'ers...much leas a project there.

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Merritt is the size of LSU safeties right now, after a few years in a college weight room he could easily be bulked up to the size of LSU's OLB's (Louis, Jones, Fiest, Alexander). Not denying he would be a project, and I don't think that would be his best position.

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I'm sure he's a great talent but we are very solid at safety and rb for the foreseeable future.

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Great talent gets passed up by greater talent all the time. I guess you would have us stop recruiting great talent because you're comfortable with the talent we already have? Let's just recruit backups for those guys until they're gone right? Just because a position might not be of need doesn't mean you don't recruit an elite athlete (from the heart of your recruiting base) that may play one of those positions. You can never have to much talent.

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In case you live under a rock, we don't run the spread and don't throw much to the rb's.

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Who the hell said we do? That's probably the reason this kid is looking around. With the log jam at RB and the way the backs are used here he may see himself projecting better at another school in a different offense. That doesn't change the fact that this kid is an elite athlete that can play multiple positions on the next level so you recruit him.