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Dude looks like he could be in an Aaron Donald mold. 300 DT and ripped - now if he could play to a tenth of what Aaron Donald is then woahhhhhhh
He's trolling his own fanbase.
This is why they meltdown so severely during the season - they delude themselves into a frenzy - then get beat horribly and dont understand what happened when anyone looking objectively saw it coming. UF fans are a special breed of delusional my gawd - the one guy referring to uga doing nothing on the field is as bad as it gets - how is a sec champ, rose bowl champ, OT in the natty, another SEC champ game against a team dubbed an all time great mid season doing nothing on the field - it makes me wonder how delusional ppl like that are in other aspects of their lives - guy needs to see a mental health professional fr fr
This is from 247 after the Opening Finals
Alpha Dog
Kendall Milton, a five-star prospect on the industry-generated 247Sports Composite, was the top-ranked running back to compete in Monday's workout and showed why. The 6-foot-2, 220-pound reported a 4.59-second 40-yard dash during testing, then assembled one of the better performances against a strong linebacker corps in "Cat-and-Mouse" 1-on1's. Perhaps his best rep in that portion of Monday's workouts came when he spun past four-star linebacker Noah Sewell for a 10-yard win in Cat-and-Mouse. Sewell was consistently good against the event's backs in virtually all of his other reps. Running back reps were limited in pass-catching 1-on-1's, but Milton got loose on the rail and almost ran down an overthrow for what would have been quite an impressive play.
Pretty sure Tank had a 4.5_ (not sure where it fell in the 4.5's, just that he had a goal and met it).
Evans probably also a 4.5 dude but the difference between Evans & Tank is agility/cutting speed. Tank has a 4.25 shuttle time, Evans is closer to a 3.8 IIRC? Jeff had a post on it a while back.
Think it is a matter of football speed versus timed speed. He told me he never trained for 40s. But was able to be very productive in tough South Florida speed.
He even returned punts. Says something about his speed being more than serviceable there. It also says a lot about his wiggle.
Had an older brother that got picked (DL) by the New York Giants in the 2018 NFL Draft. Another brother signed as a RB with Notre Dame But has since transferred. Comes from a family of athletes. Seen as best of the bunch.
Try to set the horizon of expectation here as the nation’s No. 11 RB coming in. He will be as good as anybody else’s best RB in the SEC except for maybe at Alabama and LSU.
McIntosh will likely meet those. Especially behind "The Wall."
So as not to jinx anything, this is purely conjecture but what would it realistically take for us to have a path to #1?
Obviously, passing Clemson would require us hitting on our top remaining targets like Evans, Burch, Ringo, Smith, SVP, and Sewell and probably flipping someone like Dexter but would that be enough? Or are we talking about potentially needing to upgrade one of our lower ranked guys?
In any case, in a class where we have to bear the lead weight (from a recruiting rankings standpoint) of taking a kicker, just the fact that it's in the realm of possibility is already a significant accomplishment.
Edit: forgot about Gilbert and Washington, we really have a lot of irons in the fire.
I'm sure you get it all the time, but thanks so much for your contributions to DawgNation Jeff!
As always, you deliver some grounded insights that still leave us all pretty freaking excited. I'm just stoked to hear all the buzz that Kenny's generating early in what is already a stacked RB room.
Then to pile on with Milton and whichever stud joins him in this class... apparently there are no brakes on this train right now.
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If you take a step back, it just makes you appreciate how good Kirby is at hiring guys - whether it's original staff or additions and changes made along the way... Pittman and Dell just decimating the recruiting trail... About to find out how Coley has grown as a playcaller. Lanning and Schumann all grownsed up into co-DCs... Todd Hartley seems like he may be operating on a different CSP like level for TE... Tray Scott hopefully showing signs of blossoming. Hankton showing he knows how to get the thing done. And Fountain apparently instrumental in some of those DL recruitments among others. Firing on all cylinders for sure.
@Denmen185 enters stage left
Thanks for those details. Not trying to temper the hype at all but I did wonder in watching his highlights about his top end speed. The vision and balance look to be outstanding. I was wondering how he will do trying to get the corner in the SEC to turn 7-8 yd run into a 40+ yd run. It could be the video or maybe he was slightly dinged up but that next level burst in the open field didn't seem to quite be there. Love that he's a Dawg, though, and if Dell made him a priority that's good enough for me.
Current steps for the No. 1 class:
Ringo: Moves class to 282.86 score on the composite class. (Still No. 5)
Ringo + Evans: Moves class to 293.45 score (Jumps to No. 3 behind Clemson and 'Bama)
Ringo + Evans + Sewell: Moves class to 301.67 (No. 1 overall)
Best possible close of Ringo + Evans + Sewell + Burch + Van Pran + Gilbert + Washington + A. Smith + A. Williams + Dexter flip + 1 de-commit = 331.38
Just showing the steps there. The best possible class is just not attainable at this time.
Not sharing the mock class I have in my mind. Wrote about this awhile back. There is a LOT of heavy lifting still to secure the No. 1 class. Will require a couple of upgrades in certain spots.
Quick dose of perspective about the best possible close to 2020: These 10 moves to finish out the class would place Jalen Carter and Carson Beck as the 14th and 17th-highest rated players in the class, respectively.
That is just crazy. Those two guys can be future 1RDPs right there.
I don’t think we will need Evans to surpass CU. In fact I still would mock Tank into our class over Evans.
We still have the opportunity to add 5 additional 5 stars if not more. There will be changes on DL and the players who replace the others are higher rated. Burch is likely the swing player and I love where we stand with him atm.
I should say less...
So my "high-moderate" projected class right now would come in right around 324-325 with today's rankings. Highlights include signing Burch, 2 of the 3 elite TE pod, Arian Smith, SVP, Sewell, Bigsby and Ringo. If you wanted to take that to #1 all time, it's gotta pass 326 which it seems like would take either 1) Add Zach Evans or 2) Flip Gervon Dexter and then sign a DB rated higher than Jaqurious Conley (he's my 3rd DB at present)...
If you don't have at least one of Burch/Evans, it seems like #1 all time is probably out barring a re-rank boost (though a re-rank at this point may be more likely to bring the elite classes back just a bit if we're being honest). #1 in the class will have a lot more to do with how much room do Bama/Clemson have in the class (and what are they filling it with)... If Burch were to choose UGA is sort of a 2 way hit to Clemson's ceiling right now since they are seen as one of the top competitors for his talents (or if you are a glass half empty person, you could say the opposite for us if he chose Clemson).
Thanks for the feedback, the potential here is incredible and although we'd have to expect Clemson will still land Flowe and Webb, I can't help but get a little excited about the way this is starting to shake out.