In 2017, we signed 26 guys in a class that 247sports rated #35 in the nation. (27 guys if we include Olver who stayed like a day and returned to Australia.)
Moretti, Nixon, Polley, Van Diest, Shenault, Lang, Lytle, Landman, Poplawski, Callier, Miller, Bell, Edwards, Fontenot, Wigley, Sherman, Sparaco, Newman, Jackson, Hamilton, Lewis, George, Paige, Wells, Mulumba and Stefanou.
Of those, all but Sparaco return and we had 3 starters (Edwards, Mulumba and Wigley) with 7 more who played their first year (Nixon, Shenault, Callier, Stefanou, Landman and Poplawski plus Sparaco).
It looks like that 2017 class was a huge success for our Buffs. At least half that class will at least challenge for starting jobs and be in our 2-deep in their 2nd year.
2018 is another big group of guys.
It includes 3 guys who were quasi 2017 additions with Brown (transfer who had to redshirt) along with 2 greyshirts in Sami and Roddick. In addition to those 3, we have new guys in 2018 with 6 early enrollees in Taylor, Jones, Abrams, Maddox, Robinson, Johnson and Ray (UCLA greyshirt who flipped to CU), then the summer additions in Stanley, Thomas, Arias, Stenstrom, Antwine, Moore, Smith, Fillip, Gustav, Broussard, Finau, Wallace, Hypolite, Jynes, Tchangam and Kutsch.
That's a total of 27 newcomers. These classes make up 52 of the 85 roster spots, so it's almost a complete transformation of the roster since the 2016 season and it looks like a lot of youth is going to play.
Edit: Left McMillian off somehow. 28 newcomers for 2018 with 53/85 scholarship players joining after the 2016 season.
The 2018 class was rated #52 by 247sports, but the rank is a little wonky because it doesn't include Ray (a 4* recruit). It's legitimately a Top 40 class again.
Of those new 27 for 2018, who plays this year? Who might actually start?
Assuming no injuries so there's no one forced up the depth chart (this is based on straight competition), I've got Taylor as a stone cold lock to start with Abrams, Jones, Johnson, Antwine, Tchangam, Ray, Fillip and Kutsch as guys who could potentially end up starters. I also see Hypolite and Maddox playing.
I wanted to include Stanley and Arias, but I just don't see a way to get them on the field enough to justify not redshirting them when we know that Winfree, Ento, MacIntyre, Shenault, Brown and Nixon are going to play a ton at WR with Jackson and Bell coming off their redshirt years and also ready to contribute. It's hard to imagine an 8th guy finding his way heavily into that rotation.
I'm excited about the youth on this team.
Moretti, Nixon, Polley, Van Diest, Shenault, Lang, Lytle, Landman, Poplawski, Callier, Miller, Bell, Edwards, Fontenot, Wigley, Sherman, Sparaco, Newman, Jackson, Hamilton, Lewis, George, Paige, Wells, Mulumba and Stefanou.
Of those, all but Sparaco return and we had 3 starters (Edwards, Mulumba and Wigley) with 7 more who played their first year (Nixon, Shenault, Callier, Stefanou, Landman and Poplawski plus Sparaco).
It looks like that 2017 class was a huge success for our Buffs. At least half that class will at least challenge for starting jobs and be in our 2-deep in their 2nd year.
2018 is another big group of guys.
It includes 3 guys who were quasi 2017 additions with Brown (transfer who had to redshirt) along with 2 greyshirts in Sami and Roddick. In addition to those 3, we have new guys in 2018 with 6 early enrollees in Taylor, Jones, Abrams, Maddox, Robinson, Johnson and Ray (UCLA greyshirt who flipped to CU), then the summer additions in Stanley, Thomas, Arias, Stenstrom, Antwine, Moore, Smith, Fillip, Gustav, Broussard, Finau, Wallace, Hypolite, Jynes, Tchangam and Kutsch.
That's a total of 27 newcomers. These classes make up 52 of the 85 roster spots, so it's almost a complete transformation of the roster since the 2016 season and it looks like a lot of youth is going to play.
Edit: Left McMillian off somehow. 28 newcomers for 2018 with 53/85 scholarship players joining after the 2016 season.
The 2018 class was rated #52 by 247sports, but the rank is a little wonky because it doesn't include Ray (a 4* recruit). It's legitimately a Top 40 class again.
Of those new 27 for 2018, who plays this year? Who might actually start?
Assuming no injuries so there's no one forced up the depth chart (this is based on straight competition), I've got Taylor as a stone cold lock to start with Abrams, Jones, Johnson, Antwine, Tchangam, Ray, Fillip and Kutsch as guys who could potentially end up starters. I also see Hypolite and Maddox playing.
I wanted to include Stanley and Arias, but I just don't see a way to get them on the field enough to justify not redshirting them when we know that Winfree, Ento, MacIntyre, Shenault, Brown and Nixon are going to play a ton at WR with Jackson and Bell coming off their redshirt years and also ready to contribute. It's hard to imagine an 8th guy finding his way heavily into that rotation.
I'm excited about the youth on this team.
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