ST3

June 2nd, 2016 at 1:41 PM ^

I think of Branch more as a planetary object. I'm not sure he had the quickness that Gary possesses. I'm inclined to go with Curtis Greer or Mark Messner, only bigger.

FatGuyTouchdown

June 2nd, 2016 at 1:09 PM ^

Gary is already bigger than Donald. A YMRMFSPA should never be Donald, because he's a freak at that size. I was thinking Ndamukong Suh. A big dude that can annihilate the interior of the line and change a game. Suh against Texas in 2009? was one of the best performances I've ever seen at an individual level. A restraining order wouldn't have kept him from Colt McCoy

Avon Barksdale

June 2nd, 2016 at 12:39 PM ^

Chris Evans committed so long ago he is almost an afterthought in this class. A 3/4* speedster type who was pursued heavily by Ohio State and Michigan State down the stretch. Shows you how solid this class truly was.

I could be so wrong on this, but I am really excited about Nate Johnson. His HS production and film are solid. Plus he had offers from Mark Richt, hometown Tennessee, and a late push by Notre Dame and still ended up in Ann Arbor. They will both be nice competition for Grant Perry. 

Avon Barksdale

June 2nd, 2016 at 2:57 PM ^

But let me be honest, by geography, yes Vandy is the hometown team. By any other metric, it is Tennessee. I went to high school about twenty miles from Independence and you'll be hard pressed to find many outside of West End in Nashville who live and die with the Commodores.

Tennessee, historically, gets whoever they want in the state. Memphis does usually throw out a four star or two to the Alabama's and Ole' Miss' of the world mainly because Memphis is so much closer to Oxford and Tuscaloosa than it is to Knoxville.

It was not until James Franklin that Tennessee's best were choosing Vandy over UT regularly. Regardless, the point holds -- getting Johnson over Notre Dame, Tennessee, Vandy, Mark Richt, and even James Franklin at Penn State is a nice pull.

evenyoubrutus

June 2nd, 2016 at 12:58 PM ^

I'm very interested to see how these guys end up being used. I would be pretty surprised if both of those guys stayed on offense, but it seems like Harbaugh has recruited a bunch of highly athletic but also raw prospects, in hopes of molding them into beastly football players. The ones who rise to the top should hopefully be elite.