Flippin’ season. Utes land blazing fast RB Daniel Bray.

[Anfernee]

Decommitted from SMU. Had offers from Iowa, TCU, Arizona, Pitt and others. 5-10 170 from Fort Worth, Texas. Also ran track. Assuming our new OC knows how to actually utilize his skill set, I’m pumped.

[Hellhound152]

Yay! Another midget.

[Anfernee]

You’ve obviously seen NONE of the 25 seasons of Little People, Big World if you think Bray is a midge.

[Sir Potsdam]

Zach Moss and Ty Jordan would like a word.

[PhiladelphiaUte]

Which of those 2 former Utah RBs were well under 200-lbs?

Just because a RB is as short as Moss and Jordan, that doesn’t mean he’s any good.

Utah already has a roster full of scatbacks. What we need are serviceable power backs. We’re not getting one of those with this guy.

Meh.

[Hellhound152]

#needs

[The Miami Ute]

Ashton Jeanty is 5’9″ and weighs 215 lbs after three seasons of college football.

[PhiladelphiaUte]

Jeanty weighed 195-lbs as a true freshman.

195!

Not 170!

[Hellhound152]

Can’t use that term to describe actual little people. Just people who are football players, playing the running back position, that are the same size as Dejon Stanley, John Randle III, and any others that inevitably wind up switching to defense or transferring because they lack ball skills to move to the slot when they don’t grow. Utah has been collecting 3rd down backs like Mike Leach was coaching here and have been running the ball between the tackles like Nick Saban when he had Derrick Henry. The chickens came home to roost this season on that front.

[Anfernee]

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I’m excited to see him in an uptempo scheme.

[//r00t4Utes]

That’s not the complaint or my complaint about your posts. It’s the fact that you think 5’10” is short for an RB.

Go look it up, that’s the average height for an NFL RB.

[2008 National Champ]

where does the 170 fit?

[//r00t4Utes]

I was just commenting on height.

I had not looked him up, but yeah, 170lbs is light for an RB.

But you can’t tell me that it hurts to recruit speed. There had been many posts over the season saying the Utes were slow. I don’t believe they were, but I’m just saying recruit speed and develop the talent and weight, I can see the logic in that.

[2008 National Champ]

I’m all for recruiting talent. I’m an even bigger fan of utilizing that talent. Utah has done a good job of upgrading offensive speed over the last few classes. But most of that speed has been sitting on the bench, transferred out, or moved to defense.

2 years ago I went through the recruiting stats and listed all of the 100 times I could find. Stanley against SUU was the only time I saw the Utah offense try to take advantage of it before reverting to their usual deliberate, plodding selves. I suppose a couple of Nate Johnson runs did also.

[Hellhound152]

Pardon me, slight. 5’7″ 205 as a frosh can be worked with. Enough with the 170lb running backs. I will clarify, these recruits are not thick guys. I am not excited because Utah has recruited this same player for the last 4 recruiting cycles and they have not amounted to anything but some highlight touchdowns against FCS teams.

[PNWUte29]

Don’t get me wrong. Tape looks good but I haven’t really been impressed with Ganthers recruiting at RB. I feel like they’re all the same kind of back, as in they’re all speedsters. There hasn’t been that bruising back that we’ve been able to land. Dijon, Randle (moved to DB), Woods. I think we have Andrew’s and Mitchell as our “bigger body” backs. What’s everyone’s thought on Ganther?

[Anfernee]

Also remember the OC and scheme fit will be pivotal.

[jshame17]

Question remains if he will sit in the bench while he tries to gain weight, like so many before him.

We also have a speed RB in Stanley that looked like a weapon early, then we stopped using him.

Fingers crossed for a new plan moving forward.

[//r00t4Utes]

I agree that every game, I wondered why we weren’t seeing Stanley get at least a few reps, even if just as a decoy in motion or for the wheel route play.

[BD]

Bartle posed on X that he has a 10.38 100 meter. He’s fast.

[NorthernUte]

Just flipped a QB that had committed to Texas State as well. Jamarian Ficklin, 87 overall composite score on 24/7, same score as our other QB commit, Wyatt Becker

[jshame17]

Don’t know anything about the kid, but sounds like a reach if we’re poaching Texas state and don’t have a QB coach or OC guiding this.

Are we retaining Bajakian as the QB Coach?

[NorthernUte]

Not sure on that. The kid is a stellar athlete, gonna be great to have on the team even if he doesn’t stay at QB

[Xanthis]

There are multiple QBs in G5 that turn out way better than guys recruited to the P4 schools. With how bad Utah has been with QB recruiting I won’t say we are reaching on anyone in that position.

[2008 National Champ]

I hate to be that guy but I will admit that whenever I hear of Utah recruiting a QB my first thought is “what’s wrong with them?” I look forward to the day when I get excited about that position again.

[//r00t4Utes]

Texas State’s OC is one of the rumored candidates for the OC job

[jshame17]

This is the key to the riddle then. Great call out.

[Rick Walker]

Also got a super fast DB apparently, runs a sub 10.5 hundred meter and listed at 6’1.

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