re: 2022 Recruiting Thread

Auburn has been heavy on TE offers as of late. Some new names and old names that have popped up recently:

3* TE Micah Riley-Ducker, 6'6 235
Bellevue, NE (247 Profile)
Offers: Wisconsin, Iowa, Iowa State, Miami, Michigan, Oregon

Auburn is in his top schools. His family visited campus unofficially and he will OV June 11. Summer decision. Looks like Auburn is making him a priority at the TE position

3* TE Brody Foley, 6'6, 235
Cincinatti, OH (247 Profile)
Offers: Wisconsin, Tennessee, Michigan State, Arkansas, Indiana

Auburn has just really started getting in touch with this guy. I don't think he's a big target at this time but they liked him enough to offer.

3* TE Ryan Miller 6'6 215
Chagrin Falls, OH (247 Profile)
Offers: Indiana, Georgia Tech, Iowa State, Boston College

Another guy that is a guy that Auburn coaches are keeping in touch with but is way down the board at this time.

4* CB Toriano Pride 5'11, 172
Saint Louis, MO (247 Profile)
Offers: Clemson, tOSO, Bama, Michigan

He will OV Jun 25. He's near the top of Auburn's DB board. He doesn't do a lot of media but Auburn thinks tOSU and Clemson are Auburn's main competition for Pride.

4* CB Benjamin Morrison 6'0, 172
Phoenix, AZ (247 Profile)
Offers: FSU, ND, Michigan, Michigan State, OU, Bama

He has had a virtual visit with his parents and Auburn has made a big impression in a short amount of time. He grew up in Virginia. No timeline right now to set up OVs so he does not know at this time if he will make it to Auburn

No offense man, but did you measure him yourself or see him getting measured? Just saying that I’ll take the word of 247, rivals, espn, or A&M over a poster on a message board. Especially since there was apparently no possible way that Pegues could be 300.

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FWIW, Banks said yesterday that he’s 237. He also said he’s not a WR. That he’s a “football player”. So I don’t know what to make of him

Not sure about height. If he says he’s 6’0 it would be tough to argue. And if he’s 5’11.5, I’m not sure it matters for any practical football reason. Height is notoriously inaccurate on every roster and at every level

As always, in college, I wouldn’t get too carried away with the real numbers. It’s a league that ultimately proves if you can play or not and slight differences in height and weight aren’t usually impactful

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Thank you. I swear if you try to bring facts to his board its like you're a leper or something. Disagree with my opinion all you want, but facts are facts whether you like them or not.

Also for the last time about Pegues (which I'm still right about.. feel free to look at the A day film lol).. He lost weight, then the staff decided to change his position to DT, a month later is when that news broke.. he had an entire month to gain back 15 lbs. Again all of this was reported. Nothing I said about his weight loss or gain was opinion.. it was all reported facts.

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He punches you in the face on film. That's what I remember from watching Dee's highlights. I didn't know who he was or if he was being recruited but I remember saying, "Who the hell is that guy?

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I won't deny that, but its also against high school kids. I know how good Texas HSFB is, but its still just high school. The question to me with guys like him is how fast is he really? At 6'0 235 you would probably need elite speed to be able to play WR in the SEC, because he's not going to be able to jump over guys to make plays. I'm not sure Banks has that speed.

I’m not saying you’re wrong, you very well could be right. All I’m saying is that we can either go by the numbers that are reported by the recruiting services and the schools, or, we could take your word for it. I agree with Jones though, as far as college goes there isn’t much difference between 5’11 and 6’, if you can play then you can play. I’ll also add that film doesn’t lie, and from his film the kid can flat play football. Is he an NFL WR? Who knows. Is he a #1 college WR? I doubt it, but who knows. Could he be a good addition to our unproven WR corp? Sure

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I won't deny that, but its also against high school kids. I know how good Texas HSFB is, but its still just high school. The question to me with guys like him is how fast is he really? At 6'0 235 you would probably need elite speed to be able to play WR in the SEC, because he's not going to be able to jump over guys to make plays. I'm not sure Banks has that speed.

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Jimbo liked him. He's got a pretty good track record on skill players. Some players can just play football. I doubt you want to hang your hat on that as a coach, but we need the dues at WR.

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Thats not where I was going with that point. Just that he's not a tall receiver so speed/elusiveness is his game and you don't see many 235 lbs guys like that, especially in the SEC.

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I can agree with that. He would be fine if we're just looking for depth with upside( I would imagine we are looking for more than that if we take a transfer WR at this point though).. I'm just saying its not a miss if we don't get him or an indictment on our recruiting if they chose not to pursue him.

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Yeah I can agree with all of that. My bad if I took your OP the wrong way.

With all of the targets you have posted about today it certainly seems like this staff is casting a much wider net based on locations of the recruits.

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With all of the targets you have posted about today it certainly seems like this staff is casting a much wider net based on locations of the recruits.

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I think we’ll see it narrow over time but the staff is smart enough to know they’re behind on 2022 Southeast guys and need to get in the ears of guys down their board early.

2023, so far, is a much narrower geographical area. They’re working hard on that class right now too