re: Class of 2017 Recruiting MEGATHREAD: Say Your Goodbyes Edition

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Who is higher on our safety board: Wright or Gibbs?

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I honestly don't know. We seem to want Wright very badly, though.

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Who is higher on our safety board: Wright or Gibbs?

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I would pay a pretty penny to read our staffs evaluations, and see their rankings of the nations players.

I recently watched Wright, Gibbs, and McKinney JR seasons.

My personal evals:

Gibbs and McKinney are really close for my money.

Gibbs plays both ways for his HS, and looks the part on either side of the ball. Bama loves to find DB's with Gibbs dual threat ability.

Gibbs and McKinney both appear to play (as of their JR film) stronger/more physical than Wright.

Gibbs especially does a really good job of knocking WR's off their routes, and jamming them at the LOS. Long arms, great feet, hips, vision, eye discipline... great looking prospect IMO. (especially good eye discipline for a two way HS player)


McKinney really fits the "savage" persona that Bama has rolling on the D right now. Got a lot of swag/nasty to his game. I think McKinney is the most sudden/quick-twitch/instinctive of the bunch. This dude is an absolute ball hawk. If you like watching DB's play Qb's like a fiddle, and literally bait Qb's into throwing them the ball go watch McKinneys JR film. I have no idea how many picks he ended up with that season, but I was really impressed.

Like Gibbs, McKinney is natural with the ball in his hands, and can house it from anywhere.


Wright looks like a great athlete, and I think the other two play stronger because they are stronger. Gibbs and McKinney have some weight on Wright. (again as of JR film) Wright isn't scared to come down and lay the wood though. Not as good with the ball as the other two in my very humble opinion. I do believe a big plus for Wright is between his ears which would not exactly come across in his HS film, but could be a difference maker at the collegiate level.

If youre still reading I would summarize like so:

I think the "safest" pick of the bunch would be McKinney. He is so instinctual and physically talented on the defensive side of the ball its hard to imagine he could be a miss.

I think Gibbs could be one of those dudes that if it all clicks once he becomes a full time DB could be a really special player. If I had to guess I would say Gibbs may have the highest ceiling but that is a really hard call between him and McKinney.

Has Bama missed on McKinney and Gibbs, and Wright is the next best thing ? Or does the staff know something about Wright most others do not ? Or do they know something about Gibbs or McKinney ? I have no idea.

Like I said I would LOVE to read the evals from the professionals. Talent evals and projections are fascinating to me.

It should be like classified files where all the evals of every class are released by all staffs six years after the fact. It would be really interesting to see how different staffs evaled different players.

One thing for certain if Bama offers you a scholarship to play DB you can prolly ball.

Got Wright! RTR

Just saw that he flipped.

Wade and Gibbs?

If we can flip Wade, we need to do it. If he gets here and his speed isn't great, then move him to safety.

What I think OSU may be doing with Wade now. Switching Okudah who early in the process was a S and now may be a corner and Wade was a CB and may turn into a S

Hey, any chance Urbs punches a Clemson player in the throat? You know, for tradition

Hell yeah my boy... thats what its all about right there!