Yes top 5 group in America…And Sam Brown is part of that too.
I would say all those players have a chance to be mid to late round draft picks…. George would have to test well because of his slight frame. Horton if he stays with a chance to move up. If Restrepo tests well he can maybe move up slightly. Sam Brown should test well.
We really have an excellent group of upperclassmen wide receivers right now.
Agree on all of this
I like Horton a lot, oozing with potential. good find by Diaz and co…
I think if healthy Restrepo and Horton will definitely drafted although obviously I’m betting on the come with Horton because he hasn’t played that much ball.
I think Brown at this point is about 70/30 to get drafted, and George is 50/50 or a little better…Although it’s weird because George is the best big play college WR of them all.
There’s multiple ways at looking at such a question. One could look at a “group” as some responses have put it. Then based as said group where do they stack up against other such groups in college football.
Then there’s the “who among this group can make it at the next level” and “where would they be drafted”.
These are just two ways at looking at the question among many. Personally, as a fan my ego gets rubbed when a UM player is a high draft pick. But UM could finish last in the ACC and have four first round picks. That is not attractive to me.
As a result, there is greater scrutiny on how a roster’s set of receivers perform at their current level and then in a secondary sense compare to other team’s WR groups. The latter is a battlefield of subjective opinion.
So, I feel we are left with the question of does UM have a variety of WRs with different skill sets which can be leveraged in different scenarios. The “hands” guy. The “speed” guy". The “tall” guy". It seems to me that UM currently ticks off most of any such list. Are these fellows themselves superlative? Are they quality system guys? Are they both, one or the other, or neither?
In my opinion the different skill sets UM has is a plus. Given competition to date hard to say whether they are superlative or not. Circle back in 5-6 weeks. I do think that some system stability has helped and that players know their roles better and have a better comfort level. This has and should translate into elevated on the field performance. After that, down the road, it’s probably measurables and a little tape to get to the next level.
Wrapping things up here…
I believe the only “loss” is Ben Hanks and his dad is a Gator Legacy (Steve Spurrier unretired #11 for Hanks when he went there)
I believe we would have taken and were interested in Xavier Thomas, but was all Noles from jump. A semi-loss as we need secondary help.
I’m not sure Boucard ever could committed to UM, mixed signals there. Big, athletic kid…But an injury issue rumored. I’m going to count him as an offer but not 100% sure on that.
Cortez Mills is likely UM quality, but by summer it seemed like neither side was interested (there was something very early in his recruitment). And I don’t mind what we did at WR, especially a year after Trader/Carr/C-Rob
I personally could have lived with Byron Louis, but I don’t think he was can’t miss. UM was interested, but the word is the offer wasn’t committable. Ty Jackson I believe was someonewho we had slightly behind others… Maybe we would have liked to have him after the late LB miss and recommits, but he’s another light kid like Marcelin and we are probably going always gonna side with Central everything… We backed off Charles commitment and could have Adirika early on, but seems like we simply didn’t want him.
So basically I’m calling this …
7/10 with offers…With the 3 misses being a legacy that we threw everything we had at, and a kid is whose whole family is Seminoles (I believe he is part Seminole Native American??, and a Canadian kid that I’m not sure we were entirely sold even was an offer. (FD-B) 10 is a low number for Sofla offers, a testament to it being a down year…That number is usually somewhere between 12 and ehhh 17 in a cycle.
Kids I think we maybe could have taken Ty Jackson (but again we filled up early at LB before the de-commits), then got left at the offer, although Wiley is a great get. And maybe Teddy Hoffman. And when it was apparent we missed on Hanks, I think a Tavius Horne or Caleb Gordon maybe could have gotten a late look, but we are really addressing that position int he portal with both veteran and young players. Davion Dixon was takable, but I don’t think a must have, plus it seems like his recruitment ended when ND offered. . He’s further along than Simpson but it seems like we went youth (he’s either 16 or just turned 17) and a taller/longer frame to fill out. So there’s not much I disagree with on targets this year.
We really need the top flight dbs. Our secondary is pathetic.
How much of a drop off is Chris Ewald from Hanks? Is Hanks way above the other DBs (Wallace and Ewald) in your opinion?