Catching Up With Recruitin' IV: Football '08

Our fourth commit for 2008 came to us on May 16 from tight end Nelson Hurst. Scout has him as a 3 star, the #35 ranked TE, and the #11 player in Indiana. (No, thats not a typo. We really did get someone out of Indiana. Like they say, there's a first time for everything.) ESPN gives him a 74, which is equivalent to a mid range 3 star and has him as the #41 TE. Rivals gives him just two but ranks him as the #9 player in Indiana. His offer list is actually somewhat impressive with some mid-level BCS teams in there: Central Michigan, Northern Illinois, Illinois, Purdue, and UCLA.

Some people have suggested the possibility of him playing defensive end, he plays both TE and DE in high school, but Hurst says he would rather be a TE. Seeing as we will be losing 3 TE this year, leaving only one coming back in '08, I think it is safe to say we'll be seeing him play tight end.

Pretty good pickup and at a position of desperate need too. We'll be taking at least one more TE in this class, and it wouldn't surprise me to see us take two.