re: Class of 2019 Recruiting MEGATHREAD: That's a Wrap Edition

Posted on 5/19/18 at 2:53 pm to TidalSurge1

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Posted on 5/19/18 at 2:53 pm to TidalSurge1

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Ishmael Sopsher, 5-star DT (LA)

Sopsher, from Amite (La.), is the nation’s No. 1 defensive tackle (if you haven’t caught the theme here yet) and has long been atop the Tide’s priority list.

After not making Sopsher’s top 12 last fall, Alabama is right back in the middle of things. The Bayou State native returned to Tuscaloosa for A-Day and spoke highly of the visit.

“Every time I go up there to Bama, it’s a fun place to be,” Sopsher said. “Coach Saban, he’s a great guy to be around. They have tremendous coaching staff and they show it. They have great hospitality every time you come up. Really, the hospitality and seeing the players and coaches and how well they got along.”

Sopsher wouldn’t be the first prospect the Tide has landed out of Amite, La. Wide receiver Devonta Smith, 50 percent of the Tide’s national-title winning play, attended the 2A power, a region the Tide has had a strong presence in in recent years.

The 6-foot-3.5, 330-pounder plans to narrow his list later this summer. Expect UA to make the cut.

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Posted on 5/19/18 at 2:54 pm to TidalSurge1

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Trey Sanders, 5-star RB (FL)

Although Alabama has yet to secure a commitment at the running back position, the Tide could feasibly take two ball carriers in the 2019 cycle.

Sanders, the nation’s No. 1 RB was at one point the Tide’s longest-tenured commitment after pledging to the program at A-Day back in 2016. The Bradenton (Fla.) IMG Academy product opted to decommit last January to continue evaluating his options.

The Tide remains in the thick of it to regain the five-star back’s commitment, though.

“They’re still one of the top teams on his list,” Trey’s father, Delmon Sanders, said recently. “I think they’re in his top five, I’m sure of that. Just being at IMG and seeing how all the other kids were enjoying their recruiting process not being committed and all the schools telling them all this and that, he kind of felt like he was missing out on all the recruiting. Bama is still on the top of the board. Most of the schools here in the South are.”

Other programs in the mix for the elite ball carrier include Florida, who is taking Sanders’ older brother Umstead as a walk-on linebacker this fall, Florida State, and Miami, among others.

Expect Sanders back on campus in the summer.