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We are all going to die soon. I bring terrifying news:

San Diego Lincoln 2025 quarterback Akili Smith Jr., was one of the standouts at Future 50 last month at IMG Academy in Florida. The Top247 prospect said he has a loose top three, not an official group, but the one he’s working with right now and it includes Florida, Michigan and Oregon.

The existence of a recruitable Akili Smith Jr. has caused me to drink from the wrong grail. If I find out there's a JJ McCarthy Jr in the 2026 class I'm going to evaporate.

I'm not joining "Threads." Elon Musk is currently running Twitter into the ground but "Facebook but narrower" is not something I will tolerate, folks. I do not want an algorithm populating my social media feed. I want it to be the maniacs I follow in chronological order. If Bluesky attains critical mass I'll migrate, but the sheer number of people I've blocked on Twitter is a critical advantage for that platform. Someone step in and buy it from Musk, please.

[After THE JUMP: Fred Jackson!]

Previously: Last year’s profiles. S Damani Dent, S/Nk Zeke Berry, S/HSP Keon Sabb, CB Myles Pollard, CB/Nk Kody Jones, CB Will Johnson, LB Deuce Spurlock, LB Jimmy Rolder, DE/LB Micah Pollard, DE Derrick Moore, DT Mason Graham, DT Kenneth Grant, DT Cam Goode, T Andrew Gentry, T/G Connor Jones, G Alessandro Lorenzetti, C Olu Oluwatimi, TE Marlin Klein, TE Colston Loveland.

Ponchatoula, LA – 6'4”, 180
[Barron]		247: 6'4/175            3.60*	3*, 87, NR overall #101 WR, #31 LA
		Rivals: 6'3/170            3.73*	3*, 5.7, NR overall #34 ATH, #22 LA
		ESPN: 6'3/170            3.95*	4*, 80, #128 SE #44 WR, #16 LA
		On3: 6'4/180            3.68*	3*, 88, NR overall #88 WR, #23 LA
		Composite:            3.83*	3*, 0.8826, #522 ovr #72 WR, #25 LA
		Other Suitors	ND (decommit), Bama, LSU
		YMRMFSPA	Nico Collins
Previously On MGoBlog	Commitment alert.
Notes	UA All-American. Twitter. Early Enrollee.
Film:
Senior Highlights: Hudl. Play of the week.

The best Pixar film since their acquisition is debatable, but Coco makes enough of the lists that I think it can serve for some consensus. It is a brilliant film, gorgeous, deep, and almost perfect except for one unfortunate uncanny valley (Spoiler Alert). See, for much of the movie this kid who's traversing the Land of Dead is doing so wearing skeleton facial paint to disguise the fact that he, unlike all the rest of this realm, still has his muscles and flesh. And you're thinking: Did none of these (ex-) people watch sports?

Sport fan brains are wired to tell how much meat a player carries on his bones if nothing else. Swap Steve Breaston's jersey for Jason Avant's, and you'd still have to get 100 rows back to fool anybody.

The latest moment like this was in Michigan's spring game. Nobody had seen Amorion Walker, the early enrolled wide receiver from the sandal gap of Louisiana, and nobody seemed to have accurate rosters of who was on maize or blue, but nobody who follows Michigan recruiting had trouble identifying #4.

They would have known, for example, that ever since this Southerner whose catching radius has its own zip code had the best 40 time (4.41) and vertical (40 inches) at Bama's June 2021 camp, Michigan had worked extremely hard to pry Walker out of Notre Dame's class, and that Notre Dame everything short of abandoning their most hallowed tradition (losing to a mid-major school) to prevent it. They also might have known that Special Agent Ron Bellamy played for Walker's coach, that Sam Webb was alerted by the staff that they saw this as a 5-star recruitment, and he should get be on hand for the announcement on (early) Signing Day (Sam's second visit to see Walker). That everyone who saw Walker play apparently agreed with the two winningest schools with the nation's best scouting staffs, but couldn't bring themselves to rate the guy higher than 3 stars because he looks like a twig.

Then the twig teleported past Will Johnson and settled in the soft spot in Cover 2.

Okay, we see it. Now feed the boy.

If you hadn’t heard I’ll be your new UFR guy.

Formations:

WMU responded to Michigan’s heavy stuff by setting up with their MLB down off the butt of the NG. Usually that resulted in that guy eating a face full of guard several yards downfield. I called this “3-4 Mike.”

Michigan’s 4th and 1 formation had 3 TEs and 6 OL: Trente Jones was the rightside TE, Honigford and Schoonmaker were on the left, and All is the H-back.

I called it “Beef.”

[After THE JUMP: Beef.]