2019 Football Recruiting Tracker - April Update

By: BrooklandHokie on April 23, 2018, 10:53 AM | 72 comments

With a couple of recent commits and the Spring game behind I thought I would update and share my list. This is somewhere between a prediction and a realistic best case scenario. From the people at 247 it sounds like this will be a pretty small class. My last post had 22 names, but it sounds like it may be even smaller than that so I whittled it down to 18 for this one. As always, this is a reminder that this list is #sauceless, this is just based on what I gather from reading a few different VT sites like TKP, 247, TSL, etc. I'll share some more thoughts at the bottom.

Wishlist/Prediction:

Name	Position	Stars	Composite Score	Notes
Devyn Ford	RB	4	0.9655	Warm, 4/14 OV, decides 5/18
Jordan Houston	RB/ATH	3	0.8577	Warm, 4/14 visit
Isaiah Hazel	WR	4	0.9143	Warm, in top 4
Tayvion Robinson	WR	4	0.8902	Favorite, 757, 1/14 visit
Elijah Bowick	WR	3	0.8688	Committed
Nick Gallo	TE	3	0.8638	Hokie Brother
Quinn Carroll	OT	4	0.9685	Hokie Brother, in top 6
Bryan Hudson	OG	4	0.9184	Committed
Riley Simonds	OG	3	0.8839	Buford, GA, 3/17 visit
Jesse Hanson	OG	3	0.8749	Committed
Tre'Mon Morris-Brash	DE	4	0.9015	Goode's HS
Joshua Harris	DT	4	0.9169	NC, Jan visit
Adarious Jones	DT	3	0.8739	757, Bishop Sullivan, 3/24 visit
Brandon Smith	OLB	4	0.9881	Warm, 3/17 visit
Nyquee Hawkins	CB	4	0.9065	Committed
Mike Sainristil	CB	3	0.8577	Committed
Khalid Martin	S	3	0.8778	Warm, in top 4, 4/14 visit
Jahad Carter	WR/DB	3	0.8577	Committed

Watchlist:

Name	Position	Stars	Composite Score	Notes
Traevon Kenion	WR	4	0.9236	Warm, 6'4"
Jacoby Pinckney	WR	3	0.8827	Warmer, 6'3"
Cam Hart	WR	3	0.8556	6' 3", MD
CJ Johnson	WR	3	0.8377	Warm, Top 3
Darnell Wright	OT	5	0.9879	Warm, 2/2 visit
Donavan Beaver	OT	3	0.8577	VA, multiple visits
Jakai Moore	OG	3	0.8678	Warm, 1/14 visit
Savion Jackson	DE	4	0.9785	2/2 visit, top 3
Hakeem Beamon	DT	4	0.9001	NC
Ben Smiley	DT	4	0.895	757, Indian River, 9/30 visit
Logan Cash	DT	3	0.87	Not Yet Offered
Mario Kendricks	DT	3	0.8527	FL
Jaden McKenzie	DT	3	0.8516	Not Yet Offered, Kane HS teammate
Gio Paez	DT	3	0.8466	Not Yet Offered
Jayree Hardy	DT			Not Yet Offered
Traveon Freshwater	ILB	4	0.8936	Warm, in top 5
Jaylon Scott	OLB	3	0.8556	Not Yet Offered, Dax HS teammate
Dean Ferguson	OLB	3	0.8416	Warm
Tayvion Land	CB	4	0.9237	757
Semar Melvin	CB	3	0.8699	Warm, in top 2
Myles Bell	CB	3	0.8427	Warm
Anthony Harris	S	4	0.9354	Warm, 1/14 visit
Nick Cross	S	4	0.9275	Dematha, MD
DeMarcco Hellams	ATH	4	0.9674	Warm
Cam'Ron Kelly	ATH	4	0.9408	Warm, Artis teammate
JR Walker	ATH/S	4	0.9054	NC

-With such as small class, it's going to be really hard to break into the top 20, which is what I had been hoping for in year 3 of Fuente's tenure. Instead, this year I'll be focusing on the overall composite score for the class. Each year since Fuente arrived in 2016, the recruiting composite scores have increased, and I'm looking for that to continue. Here's a look:

2016 - .8485 (21 enrollees) *This was the transition year
2017 - .8613 (26 enrollees)
2018 - .8746 (26 enrollees/LOI)

I am hoping that this years composite can continue the positive trend and we can land a class with at least a .8850 composite score. Whatever the ranking, I would consider that a success. If we land all the guys in the first table that would be a composite score of .8992.

-From the Prediction list the top 5 least likely to actually commit in my mind are:
1. Joshua Harris - haven't heard much about him, he's more of a place holder for another DT other than Adarious, but it would be awesome to land him.
2. Tre'Mon Morris Brash - Similar to Harris, I hope we take at least one DE, but I'm not super confident in landing Savion Jackson, and Brash is teammates with Goode. Haven't heard a lot about him, but he's seems like the next most likely DE we have a shot with.
3. Brandon Smith - Seems like it's between PSU and VT, but I have a feeling we finish in 2nd place. If you ain't first, you're last. If we don't land him I wonder if we take a LB in this class. Dean Ferguson might be the next most likely.
4. Quinn Carroll - Sounds like his OV went really well, but as well as Vice has done in this cycle it's still hard for me to believe we can land a top 50 OT. Here's hoping the brother connection pans out!

Most important positions in my mind:
1. RB - we need to land Ford. Period. Landing Houston as a RB/ATH would be a great compliment.
2. DT - I like Adarious and hope that works out. Not sure who else we really have a shot with. There are some on the watch list that I included and really like such as Mario Kendricks, Gio Paez, and Jayree Hardy. I also like Logan Cash, but worry he might not be able to add enough weight and keep his explosiveness.
3. OL - Vice is killing it. Even if we miss on Carroll, I really like Donavan Beaver, who I think we have a decent shot with. And Simonds worries me a little that he hasn't decided yet, everything I read says that if he decided today he would be a Hokie, but he may end up waiting. Hopefully he pulls the trigger.

Would love to hear people's thoughts and predictions. Happy Monday!

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