2019 Football Recruiting Tracker

So I did this a few times last recruiting cycle to try and keep track of where we stand with recruits, as well as try to keep an overview of the class as a whole. It was also fun to look back on the first couple of these posts I did and see how well it did or didn't match up (here is a link to the second one I did last March. Of the 25 recruits on the list, we kept 4/5 of the current commits, got 8/20 of the wish list, and 1 from the watch list).

For this year, I will try to cap the number of recruits to 22 as the rumors are that this will be a smaller class than the last two. I am also trying to balance being hopeful and realistic. For example, for the primary list I didn't just put the best recruit we have offered at each position, but tried to put guys that I have heard have some sort of connection to VT (visits, Warm on 247, family connections, mentioned on this site, etc.) As always, I want to be clear that this is all #sauceless. If you want the inside scoop you need to ask LA or BAG, but I thought it might be interesting to some to see a lot of the recruiting news compiled into one place. I'll try and update this at least every couple months and repost. So here is the 2019 list, I'll share some thoughts at the end. Happy Monday!

Others to Watch:

*Shout out to hokie07ME for the table tutorial

Thoughts:
-If we landed everyone in the primary list that would give us an average rating of 89.70. That is up from 87.46 last year, and based on last year's team rankings would be good for about the 17th ranked class.

-Top priorities for this class in my mind are Devyn Ford, OL, and DL (especially DT).

-I love the possibilities for OL next year, we definitely did not have this many solid recruits interested in us at this point last year. We already have Hanson, and I also really love Beaver, Hudson, and Simonds. I think Carroll is probably a long shot, but his older brother was a long snapper at VT, so I didn't want to count out the family ties.

-DT is still a little worrisome to me. I think Jones would be a great pick-up. People are really excited about Smiley, but he seems a little small, and I haven't been able to see any of his tape to get really excited about him. A couple of names that I would be excited for but I haven't seen mentioned much with VT are Joshua Harris and Mario Kendricks.

-From the secondary list some players I really love but I don't think we have a great shot with are Cam'Ron Kelly and Litchfiled Ajavon. Some sleepers that have some of my favorite HS film are Tiquest Terry, Jordan Houston, and Lannden Zanders.

I would love to hear what people think. Keeping the primary list to 22 was pretty hard. I can't imagine how hard this is for the staff. Here's to hoping to another year of improvement on the recruiting trail. Happy TKPing!