Remaining 2018 Targets

With the NSD a little over a week away I was trying to wrap my head around who is still available, and how the rest of our class might fill out. I was going to just post this as a comment in the recruiting thread, but I got a little long-winded. here's what I came up with:

So I had a revolutionary idea...I have seen articles about how Dax and Grant were at UNC together this weekend. And have seen tweets between Grant and Chatman. Someone should totally tweet at them all and let them know they could all play together for the Hokies.

On a more serious note, those 3 are my hopes to finish out the class. I saw a headline on 247 that Fuente still has an in-home with Walker and Baptiste, but I don't have much hope for either of them.

Here are my odds and thoughts:
Becton - 80%
His tape underwhelms me, half of it is him running the wildcat on the goal line, and when he is at DE he stands straight up and waits to see where the ball is going, then chases it. Seems like he is just used to being bigger and stronger than everyone he plays against and hasn't had to learn any technique. Seems like a big project to me. (side note: Jaevon, if you're reading this, nothing would make me happier than for you to come to VT and turn into a star and make me look like an idiot! PS, I'm a middle school math teacher who has no idea what he's talking about)

Dax - 60%
This feels a lot like Hunter's recruitment last year. We obvioulsy want him because he's a great player, but we also want to prove to ourselves that we can land blue-chip recruits. I think the biggest thing keeping him from committing to the good guys is the number of bodies we have at LB. I would counter that with the fact that we don't have any other guys rated as highly out of HS as him, and our starters just left, so the competition will be wide open next Fall.

Grant - 50%
I wasn't all that excited about Grant when his name started showing back up, but the more I think about it, I really hope we can get him. He would be the highest rated RB on our roster and it seems like he would make a good pair with Ford in a couple years. I think he could really improve our RB room.

Chatman - 35%
He is my biggest hope in terms of filling a need. I think he would become the next Woody Baron in our system and would make a great pair playing alongside Goode. I think our only hope is if Miami takes another DT and they don't have room for him, or he doesn't like his chances competing with whoever they land.

Baptiste - 5%
I think he would be a great recruit and could become a beast in our system. However it sounds like we have no shot with momma not liking the Burg. At the end of the day, our DE depth isn't terrible after last years class, but it would hurt to miss out on Henry first, and then think we found a diamond in the rough with Baptiste, only to lose him to Nebraska??

Walker - 1%
I know people view him as a project on the O-Line, but he is the highest rated OT we have offered. I thought he showed incredible growth from his sophomore film to his senior film and think he could be coached into a star. With that said I get the feeling it's a two horse race between PSU and OSU and I actually feel decent about the rest of the OL guys in our class.