Around the SEC: Recruiting news and trends
It's time to take a look around at the biggest pick-ups on the recruiting front as well as some of the top recruiting news and notes from around the SEC. Jason Howell details that and more in this week's Around the SEC.
A few afternoon recruiting notes
Denton Guyer CB Deuce Harmon released his top 7 list of Texas A&M, Oregon, Texas, Notre Dame, SMU, USC, and TCU. I continue to hear the Aggies are in good shape here. https://twitter.com/_DeuceHarmon_/status/1258477504542670853?s=20Oregon and Texas both continue to make strong pushes and it sounds like they may be the top competitors. As I said in My Three Things last week I think this one eventually comes down to Texas A&M and Texas and I think the Aggies pull this one out. Coach Rushing and the rest of the staff continue to develop a strong connection with the Harmon family and I think those relationships along with what Texas A&M can offer academically and beyond the football field will go a long way. It also does not hurt having his longtime friend and teammate Eli Stowers already committed. Texas A&M also offered Mississippi Gulf Coast CC CB Jadarrius Perkins yesterday and go ahead and this is a guy I could see the Aggies getting very involved with. He's a December graduate and at 6-2, 190 he is a big physical CB. The Aggies have been recruiting him pretty hard for the past two weeks before the offer was extended, and coach Rushing is leading the Aggies' efforts. Perkins did not indicate he was leaning toward anyone in particular at this time, but there does seem to be legitimately strong interest between both he and Texas A&M. He hopes to make a decision in July. The Aggies hosted Shemar Turner and his family for a virtual meeting this week and after talking to a few sources in DeSoto I'm told Texas A&M remains in a good position and is very much in the thick of things. I was told to expect him to trim his list to a top 5 by the end of May and right now I get the feeling the Aggies would make that list. As for a commitment, he does not have a definite timetable right now, but a decision later in the summer before the start of the season is a possibility. Right now, it sounds like the Aggies continue to position themselves well in his recruitment. Others heavily involved include LSU, Georgia, Oregon, Oklahoma, Texas and Alabama. The Aggies continue to heat up the Northeast and today they extended an offer to Athol Springs (NY) St. Francis 2022 DE Jimmy Scott today. He told me he was excited to receive the news. "I was really shocked and honored," Scott said. "It's truly a blessing to be offered to such a great school in Texas A&M." "What comes to mind is a great program that is in the SEC that has good academics and wins !!" Coach Tyler Santucci is leading the Aggies efforts and Scott said he is excited to start building the relationship. He has been a hot prospect in the northeast. In the last couple of months the 6-foot-3, 250-pound defender has received offers from Minnesota, Pitt, Ole Miss, Arkansas, Boston College, Illinois, Rutgers, and Syracuse.https://www.hudl.com/video/3/10792512/5d8ea17abd75571124fe77a6