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re: Class of 2019 Recruiting MEGATHREAD: That's a Wrap Edition
Posted on 5/19/18 at 2:54 pm to TidalSurge1
Posted on 5/19/18 at 2:54 pm to TidalSurge1
quote:>>> Highlights - hudl
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.
This post was edited on 5/19/18 at 5:29 pm
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Posted on 5/19/18 at 2:54 pm to TidalSurge1
quote:>>> Highlights - hudl
Nolan Smith, 5-star WDE (FL)
Alabama has long been after one of Georgia’s top-rated commitments. Like Sanders, Smith is also a product of IMG Academy in Bradenton, Fla. by way of Georgia.
Smith visited Tuscaloosa earlier this year for Junior Day and continues to listen to the Tide’s recruiting pitch despite his over year-long commitment to the Bulldogs.
“Just the people and the environment there,” Smith said of his favorite part about the Tide. “It’s a great place to go.”
Not only that, the five-star edge rusher says Alabama would likely be the team to beat if he were to backoff his commitment to Georgia. Although it remains to be seen if that will actually happen.
The Tide already has a pair of outside linebackers committed in its class in four-stars Kevin Harris of Loganville (Ga.) Grayson and King Mwikuta of Lagrange (Ga.) Troup County. Smith, of course, would still be welcomed, as would the aforementioned Thibodeaux. Linebacker is a priority position in the 2019 class.
Offensive coordinator Mike Locksley was at IMG’s spring game on Thursday night evaluating the Tide’s targets there.
Expect Smith back on campus for at least an official visit if not more trips than that in the coming months.
This post was edited on 5/19/18 at 5:28 pm
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