Defensive tackle recruiting

In looking at the 247 recruiting rankings, Clemson has verbal commitments from the top three defenive tackles in the country, Bresse, Capeheat and Williams. That’s crazy. In the 2018 cycle they had two five star defensive linemen and two high four stars. This year they had an amazing three defensive linemen go in the NFL first round. It’s no magic secret why they are winning. In addition to having top QBs over the last few years, including the best freshman qb in the country last year, Clemson has been dominating in the trenches.

Orgeron is working on a potentially great class this year. Jaquelin Roy is the 4th ranked defensive tackle and Jacobisn Guillory the 11th.p Unfortunately fir LSU, while Orgeron has recruited well during his tenure, his misses have largely been on the defensive line. And he has been only marginally better getting top talent on the o line.

Roy and Guillory are must gets in this class if we want to keep pace with the big boy teams in the trenches. If we miss on one of these guys, McKinnley Jackson becomes the must get. Our highest rated recruit on the d line has been Shelvin, and his inability to control his weight makes him a disappointment thus far. I hope it’s true he has trimmed down. And I hope Ika is a player, the early reports on him have been good. He was the 14 ranked DT last year. Both Clemson and Bama has higher rated defensive tackles in their 2019 class.