You know me, a heights and weights kind of guy. I had a couple of appointments cancel on me this morning, so instead of being productive with my time, I looked up some quite useless information.
A good bit of this year's recruiting class is already on campus and ready to start in the Spring. Auburn released their roster with updated bio's on the signees, and a few things stood out. Not that his stats changed very much, but Cartavious "Tank" Bigsby checked in at 6' 209.
Very impressed with the heights of this wide receivers class:
Elijah Cannon: 6'4" 201
Ze'vian Capers: 6'4" 192
JJ Dy-no-mite Evans: 6'2" 192
Four O-linemen made it on campus, one of which is definitely going to need to strap on the feed bag. If not, he can try and work in at the high profile H-Back position:
Brendan Coffey: 6'6" 264
Killian Zierer: 6'7" 284
Tate Johnson: 6'3" 325
Avery Jernigan: 6'3" 306
So, Jack Bicknell, Jr. will basically be starting from scratch with the O-line. Four starters gone and the center, Nick Brahms, only started 2 whole games. As we discussed in the Sign and Drive forum, I have been far less than impressed, not only with this recruiting haul at that position, but our O-line recruiting dating back several years. The last highly rated lineman I can recall in recent memory was Calvin Ashley. His name will most definitely go down as one of the greats....in Colorado Buffalo history.
Suffice it to say our O-line has been less than stellar in recent years, and the Debbie Downer in me doesn't see any real reason for improvement this season. There's most likely nobody in this signing class that's a plug and play, and the guys we have coming back couldn't beat out the schleps we had the last two years. Maybe Co Bick will breathe new life into them. Could he have the Joe Brady/Joe Burrow effect on our line? Don't know but that's about the only thing I can hang my hat on. One thing we have is numbers.
Jalil Irvin 6'2" 300
Justin Osborne 6'4" 280
Nick Brahms 6'4" 301
Tashawn Manning 6'3" 326
Keiondre Jones 6'3" 325
Brodarious Hamm 6'5" 312
Kameron Stutts 6'4" 320
Alec Jackson 6'5" 304
Austin Troxell 6'6" 310
Prince Michael Sammons 6'7" 307
Kamaar Bell 6'2" 320
Out of those, it seems I recall Hamm and Manning (Along with Brahms) getting the most second team reps. Troxell would seem like a next in line, but who knows with his injury situation. I've read good things about Irvin, but like most of these, I just don't know.
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