It's kind of insane the amount of talent UW is accumulating in the "expect a woof soon, he just committed" category and/or the "he seems to publicly recruiting for UW, seems like just a matter of time before he commits". Sometimes it helps to see it laid out in one place:
Rumored to already be committed:
[/b]Sam Adams
Geirean Hatchett
Jacobe Covington
JTT (2021)
Will Latu (2021)
Seems to be publicly recruiting for us?
[/b]Makell Esteen
Upcoming WOOFs could be any of these kids rather easily (or the LS).
Assuming all of them come in, and I don't really see us missing on any of these, that's three more blue chips for this class (would get us to 8), plus two more for next year and a classic Jimmy Lake underrated corner recruit.
And obviously significantly more to come after that.
If we can add Hector, two four star WRs (out of Odunze, Bryant and LVS) we're at 11 blue chips. Get an edge rusher and you're at 12. Offer and close Rogers that's 13.
13 is probably the cap for this class with the three stars we've already taken plus the specialists. I guess we could sneak 14 if you pulled Banks and Smalls with the rest of this but that's highly unlikely, or if we found room for another OL but I don't see them going over 4.
I'm gonna guess we hit 13 blue chips this tim around with 12-14 being the range. @YellowSnow, what would that do to our bc totals?
With Adams moved into the official category we now have 6 blue chips publicly committed, and probably somewhere in he range of 11-12 schollies left. We know one of those will be to a long snapper so that's at least 7 non blue chips (per the rankings, I'm not saying we don't want these guys). It appears we'll take two three star corners and seems like a three star DL (Keneley) is probable. That's a total of ten non blue chips. I think we get seven more blue chips:
Public commit this week
[/b]-Hatchett
Public commit soon[/b] - Covington
Public commit mid August[/b] - Odunze
Slot receiver[/b] - LBS or Bryant
Gonna be a fight but feel like they're ours sometime this fall
[/b] - Banks and Hector
Those six I feel very confident in. I'd be pretty surprised if we whiffed on any of them, though Banks is obviously the one we'll have to fight hardest for.
After the you've got the "will they offer" guy in DJ Rogers, and then the in state wild cards: Smalls, Scott.
I think they offer and get Rogers, and end up pulling it out one of Smalls and Scott but not both (probably Smalls because I can't see us taking four receivers...Scott would be more likely if Odunze picks OU).
That's a class of 24 which seems huge. Maybe we'll pass on Keneley and take 23.
This class would max out at 14 blue chips (it's really hard to see a path to more than that), with probably a floor of 12 (No Rogers, no Smalls).
Interestingly none of the blue chips except Redman are particularly close to dropping out of blue chip range (and he seems far more likely to rise than fall) and none of the non blue chips especially close to getting four star status so I think these categories are likely to hold.
I would guess we get at minimum two more woofs in July, maybe there (Esteen and Covington most likely alongside Hatchett).