'25 Portal Thread

[MarcoVol]

True, UGA's passing game has always relied on dominant tight ends.

Not this year. Their top 3 yardage guys are are WRs. Then a TE. Then another WR.

 

[MarcoVol]

I don’t understand WR’s going to UGA though. They will win, but McConkey, Pickens, and Wims are the only receivers to eclipse 700 yards under Kirby. No one over 750 yards.

We’ve had 4 different WR’s eclipse at least 800 yards in 4 years under Heupel.

Maybe they’re showing they’re looking to evolve their offense some by getting more WR talent.

 

[TrippieRedd]

Bothwell to Miss St

 

[I4Jay]

Of course not

smh

 

[Vol423]

It’s just so funny to me that I see other teams not afraid of running guys off and not afraid of adding to crowded position groups, but not us though we can’t piss off our third stringers

I think that is partially due to many RF posters' delusional initial assessment of the talent level of many of our recruits.

 

[Vol423]

That's literally all Thornton did. He housed several slants or go routes. However, our WRs are one of the worst groups in the nation at drops and generating separation so we either need a better WR coach, better WRs...or both.

Both is the correct answer.

 

[Vol423]

Sadly I think OL/WR might need help in staffing changes...

Cause on paper WR room was full of talent.

HS Rankings per 247
Bru McCoy - 5 star, 10th National Player, 1st ATH (didn't realize he was an OLB...so maybe playing out of position his whole career?)
Dont'e Thornton - 4 star, 75th National Player, 11th WR
Mike Matthews - 4 star, 40th National Player, 9th WR
Braylon Staley - 4 star, 78th National Player, 15th WR
Kaleb Webb - 4 star, 199th National Player, 35th WR
Squirrel White - 3 star, 84th WR
Chris Brazzell - 3 star, 116th WR

I mean that's plenty of talent... not many other position groups have 4 former top 100 players in them.

Our WR corp was as overrated as Butch Jones' recruiting classes. We have a room full of guys that are best suited to be #3 or #4 WR's.

 

[JAllen18]

Any good news you can share?? Still sad from Saturday @JAllen18

Still a lot up in the air as of now, but priority is on both lines of the ball. Feel like we got enough skill guys on the roster right now, but need to shore up LOS first. They'll be more guys hitting the portal as well.

 

[orangerush]

Coaches decide who is on the roster and who plays, maybe the WR coach isn’t all that.

 

[tnhunter 10]

??

 

[tnhunter 10]

Rich get richer. I believe he was one of the top tight ends in the portal.

 

[MarcoVol]

??

Paying him money to be the guy after the guy I guess

 

[FBtime]

Scared me to death...

 

[tnhunter 10]

 

[tnhunter 10]

Paying him money to be the guy after the guy I guess

Wasn't Sellers a Freshman this season?

 

[RiseToTheTop]

Still a lot up in the air as of now, but priority is on both lines of the ball. Feel like we got enough skill guys on the roster right now, but need to shore up LOS first. They'll be more guys hitting the portal as well.

Enough skill guys?

Were we watching the same team?

 

[MarcoVol]

Wasn't Sellers a Freshman this season?

RS Fr yep. Maybe banking on him going pro after next year

 

[MarcoVol]

Enough skill guys?

Were we watching the same team?

To be fair our skill guys might’ve looked much better if our LOS didn’t get dominated all night on both sides of the ball.

 

[Jackcrevol]

I dont like where are so far in portal. Someone help me feel better Hoping we are waiting for OL/DL to leave so we free money up/get out of the dead period.

 

[CamVol8]

Still a lot up in the air as of now, but priority is on both lines of the ball. Feel like we got enough skill guys on the roster right now, but need to shore up LOS first. They'll be more guys hitting the portal as well.

how do we have enough skill guys……

 

[KB5252]

They did have a cakewalk. They just sucked lol

It wasn't nearly as easy as we thought, some teams are better, some teams are down as opposed to what the prognosticators say. They did suck though.

Oklahoma was supposed to be a tough draw...... They were among the worst in the league......

 

[JCVol00]

Still a lot up in the air as of now, but priority is on both lines of the ball. Feel like we got enough skill guys on the roster right now, but need to shore up LOS first. They'll be more guys hitting the portal as well.

enough skill guys? We only have 6 scholarship wr’s, how is that enough?

 

[Jimmy Football]

I dont like where are so far in portal. Someone help me feel better Hoping we are waiting for OL/DL to leave so we free money up/get out of the dead period.

This is all I can give you: there was some chatter right after ESD that we might not see much portal activity until after the window closed, and that we would try to keep our targets as secret as possible. I have no idea if that’s true.

 

[volstudent26]

Still a lot up in the air as of now, but priority is on both lines of the ball. Feel like we got enough skill guys on the roster right now, but need to shore up LOS first. They'll be more guys hitting the portal as well.

LOS is definitely a priority especially DT and IOL.

But I do think we have a glaring deficiency at safety. Might need to add one more solid CB too.

At LB we having amazing young talent coming in and on roster but idk when it’ll be ready. Definitely felt the Pilli injury.

I will say we have promising young WR’s but I think we really had a glaring deficiency there and we need to pull in an elite WR from the portal if we can.

That being said coaches have to build those relationships and as Fans and boosters we have to put in the $ to be successful in NIL.

 

[Vol423]

Coaches decide who is on the roster and who plays, maybe the WR coach isn’t all that.

Based on performance, I think that is an understatement.