His rating is 0.8850 per 247, which in all time recruits is 5th all time, with Jacob Bower, Chad President, Broderic Jones, and Shavodrick Beaver in front of him.
Plenty to be excited about with this recruit if you watch his clips.
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Now about those all time rankings. A couple of things. First of all, we are a G5 school and there’s probably a dozen guys through the years that were 5.6 or 5.7 recruits with P5 offers that if they took them, Rivals likely would have bumped them higher than the 4 guys you list. Of those 4, only Chad President played significant minutes as a starter and you’d likely get a consensus among fans that he was the worst QB to start games in multiple seasons at Tulsa in the last 50 years. Alum. Stellar human. 5 star leader. Not a FBS QB. As for the rest, most are guys that got rated after P5 offers were on the table and they fell to us in the numbers game. Do the math.
Derrick Hall
Milton Howell
Relus Chance
Jabe Burgess
Deya Mhiesen
Damahco Ousley
All these above and more never made it to campus or barely saw the field and were all 5.6 and rated higher than guys like Chris Chamberlain, Charles Clay, and Garrett Mills. Guys that were four season contributors, all conference players, who went on to the NFL who clearly had the speed and athleticism from day one to be rated 5.9 or better. BTW, Zaven Collins just called and if you want to print him up a T-Shirt with “5.4” on the front, he’ll take a size 3XL, but he wants “$8 Million Signing Bonus” printed on the back.
The highest rated/profile recruit we’ve had in the modern era is probably CJ Scott. A signing day offer over Tennessee and others, he was the consensus player of the year in Tennessee. He wasn’t rated by Rivals, iirc. But super human athletic ability. Lock down corner. Just write off his side of the field.
My pick would probably be Terrel Nemons. 5.7 on rivals. Chose Tulsa over Oklahoma and Texas. Probably had 20 other offers. Four year contributor, Alum, All conference. Solid human being and business owner now.
Others worth mentioning who were 5.7 and probably bigger recruits than Damaris Johnson, Clay, and others. Jake Alexander probably had 40 offers and if he had gone to Nebraska or Notre Dame, Rivals would have pumped him up. JeTerrian Douglass same story. How he didn’t end up at A&M we will never know. Far better than 5.7. And again, as far a recruiting hype/rating, way above Damaris. And Rowdy Frederick probably ought to be on this list too.
Back to this guy, we’ve been at our best when we’ve managed to get long lean wide outs on campus because we’ve got a QB who can get them the ball. Slick Shelley, Keyarris Garrett, Romby Bryant, Montiese Culton, Bryan Burnham, the list goes on and on. Guys that could drink 3 protein shakes a day and never gain a pound but fast with the strength and agility to separate and high point the ball.
Get this guy a 4 Star QB on campus and dudes like this one will follow. But from what this fan can see, he would be prolific at Tulsa. Feature WR.
WR Joshua Smith. It looks like it’s down to us and Texas Tech in his recruitment, and he’s be the 5th highest rated recruit of all time if we were to get him. Thoughts?
it’s us, Texas Tech, and UTSA. We made it over Ole Miss and OSU. Pretty dang good if you ask me
