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re: Top 5 DL Classes From Portal - Rivals
Posted on 2/25/25 at 7:45 am to 304tiger
Posted on 2/25/25 at 7:45 am to 304tiger
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This year is CFP or bust. Really, we should make a run at the semis as well. When you look at the DLine for Ohio State, Texas, ND, Penn State, Oregon, and others, were their DTs described as playing decently well?
Again I'm not against adding some high impact DT, the things I've been responding to was just adding an "experienced DT" which to me screams just some other body. We dont need that at DT, we have NINE guys already, the only thing we could use there would be a starter/high rotational impact player, period.
Again, look at safety though and tell me thats not a MUCH bigger need, we have less bodies there and right now Gilbert is still in line to start, you good with that?
We got young fairly quick at DT last season once Guillory got hurt. We moved Shand inside and McKinley and Breaux especially got a number of reps. MCKinley and Breaux are not entering year 2 and should be better. Guillory coming back is huge there for a big experienced body who can play decently well.
This post was edited on 2/25/25 at 7:46 am
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Posted on 2/25/25 at 8:51 am to thunderbird1100
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I dont know that Mitchell is expected to contribute that much beyond being a rotational run stopper or a guy they bring in to put alongside Guillory on 3rd/short or 4th short high chance run situations.
Meh. He was brought in to fill a role. We lacked size, especially experienced size, inside last season once Guillory went down.
The ranking is based on the DEs, not him.
Posted on 2/25/25 at 8:54 am to thunderbird1100
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We've got wayyyyy too many DTs from a numbers standpoint as is. I get 4 of them are freshmen but 9 DTs is an absolute ton already.
If we bring in another DT, it needs to be a one year guy. We need the young guys like Zion to stick around.
Posted on 2/25/25 at 9:08 am to thunderbird1100
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Posted on 2/25/25 at 9:16 am to 304tiger
I agree that we only need a real impact/ rotational guy at DT. We have the depth but I'm not crazy about the rotation, especially if Guillory may not be the same.
I'm not as concerned about Safety. Cooley will lock down one spot. IMO, Delane will end up taking the other spot by Fall. I think he and Cooley would be pretty elite at Safety, and we'd be good at Corner w/o Delane with Pickett, Jackson, Stamps, and Woodland.
If Delane doesn't play Safety, we have 2 former blue chip recruits going into year 2 and 3 in Spears and Toviano. One of those guys should be able to be counted on. Obviously I'm not that high on Giblert, but thought he played good against Baylor in the bowl game.
Hopefully Perkins can make an impact at STAR and our overall tackling in space improves.
I'm not as concerned about Safety. Cooley will lock down one spot. IMO, Delane will end up taking the other spot by Fall. I think he and Cooley would be pretty elite at Safety, and we'd be good at Corner w/o Delane with Pickett, Jackson, Stamps, and Woodland.
If Delane doesn't play Safety, we have 2 former blue chip recruits going into year 2 and 3 in Spears and Toviano. One of those guys should be able to be counted on. Obviously I'm not that high on Giblert, but thought he played good against Baylor in the bowl game.
Hopefully Perkins can make an impact at STAR and our overall tackling in space improves.
Posted on 2/25/25 at 10:33 am to 304tiger
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I'm not as concerned about Safety. Cooley will lock down one spot. IMO, Delane will end up taking the other spot by Fall. I think he and Cooley would be pretty elite at Safety, and we'd be good at Corner w/o Delane with Pickett, Jackson, Stamps, and Woodland.
Delane seems like they are dead set on playing corner, not safety (which did surpirse me considering what we do have at corner compared to safety). Which means again, your next guy up at safety will be Jardin Gilbert, who played ahead of Spears/Toviano all last season.
I had hopes of seeing Toviano look decent at safety in the bowl game, and yes it was a recent move for him, but he didnt inspire much confidence from that game. Spears was just a freshman but never really was able to make himself a mainstay last year with his play.
Perkins definitely has STAR locked down but again I see a huge need to potentially close the "do we really want Gilbert starting another year" at safety gap. Maybe he is much better if fully healthy (no shoulder issues) but he's ALWAYS struggled tackling going back to his Texas A&M days and that's a huge weakness to have at safety. If they are dead set on Delane playing corner i just see a huge huge need at safety considering how bad of play we got from there last season. Cooley was a huge add to fill 1 gap and Perkins cant be any worse than Major Burns.
This post was edited on 2/25/25 at 10:36 am
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