Ok, I’m officially concerned about this year’s class.
From a pipeline perspective, we need linebackers (any position), edge rushers, and DBs (any position).
We only have one top 150 player currently committed from those position groups, Joespeh Anderson, who, like Pickens, might end up moving inside rather than becoming an elite edge rusher. Fitten might work out at buck, but his first step doesn’t look elite.
We probably have the worst linebacker group in the SEC, and we don’t have a top 500 player coming in at that position.
Cam Smith is the only DB we have committed, and he was such a late bloomer than he wasn’t on most SEC boards. He looks like he can play, but he’s a project. And we need another CB and someone who could play safety.
Beyond that, we don’t have anyone who looks like an elite LT prospect in this class. Mullins is your WR prospect, but he’s raw. Taking a complete shot in the dark with the RB position.
Only other top 200 guy we look likely to add is Sorrels, but with Pickens and Anderson as candidates to move inside, plus Sandidge and Belk, DT or big ends in the 3 down set is a position group that’s already strong.
Probably end up with Robinson and Dixon to complete the DB group— which ok, quality guys, but not the elite DB talent you would hope T rob and Muschamp could pull. Hill and Steele look like Florida locks.
No elite WR or RB recruit in this class. No elite left tackle prospect. The Linebacker situation is a mess.