2013 Texas Recruiting: Dallas Nike Camp - Swoopes, Prevot, Raulerson and more

Great assessment Scip. I see Prevot and Hall as dynamic rush ends/OLB’s at this point. Should they both sign with us, I see Diaz utilizing their versatility rather than trying to slot them into a single position. They remind me of the old Colorado duo of Kanavis McGhee and Alfred Williams, with Prevot resembling McGhee and Hall resembling the lanky and lengthy Williams. Those two obviously helped solidify the foundation of a formidable CU defense.

A’Shawn seems determined to be a DT and not an OL and given his physical skills and that desire to stay at DT, I’m voting to let him stay there simply because there is no way in hell I’d try to get in his way. Bo will have lots of work to do on his technique because several times in the film, he stood straight up when he could have just trucked through the guy in front of him, but these are easily fixable issues.

Jake Raulerson is probably my favorite recruit of this class and in recent memory. I know that most of my patients that have had septal surgery and any kind of tonsil/adenoid work are no where near ready to perform sustained physical competition inside a month of recovery time. That and the fact that he still performed at a very high level impresses me to no end and the fact that he is one of our most vocal recruiters doesn’t hurt. With his drive, athleticism, and intelligence, I see Jake becoming not just a great team leader but the kind of Kasey Studdard mix of lead by example and by voice despite not being the biggest guy out there. I watched some of the film with a buddy of mine that used to coach D2 ball and he kept harping on how well Raulerson played with near flawless technique. Said many players didn’t grasp what he Raulerson was doing instinctively until they were sophs or juniors in college.

I honestly think that even if we were to close shop on this class with we who we currently have committed, this class will go down as one of our best of the last 10-20 years. We seem to be really focusing hard on getting only top tier and motivated top tier players. It is refreshing not to see a quarter of the class filled with “bleed for the program” guys.

Adding a couple of top flight corners and a couple of top flight safeties would be icing on a very sweet piece of cake.

The two players I want to ask you about are Mike Mitchell and Joey Bosa. I think Bosa is worth an offer based on his film, but I haven’t seen much film on Mitchell and as close by as he lives to me, I’m surprised not to have heard more about him if those camp numbers are accurate (6’4", 222 pounds, 38 inch vertical, 4.57 40). Sounds like a ready made starting WDE or a great TE. What’s the scoop on him?

He does remind me a lot of Alfred Williams of Colorado circa 1990. Thin at the shoulders, tall, lanky, condors wingspan, etc. Thrived as a 3-4 OLB and down DE on passing situations. If he can learn enough technique to keep the OL off his body, he’ll have a chance to be special too.

those seem to be what get to Raulerson. He can beat DL to the spot all day but when they cross back into him he doesn’t have the base to absorb a shot. Obviously that’s fine, since he’s currently what? 250?

Well executed speed-to-power type inside moves are hard for everyone, also. Ulatoski was a fine technician that would get destroyed by a better pass-rusher’s inside moves. Von Miller drank his milkshake 2 years in a row.

If he’s a legitimate 6’4.5 now, we’ll no doubt list him on MBTF as a solid 6’8.

From a size perspective maybe but they put him inside a couple times and he was lost. Other against Prevot he was very good at OT. He might have a future inside but he’s going to have to big learning curve.