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College Football: 5 Recruiting Trends in 2019

By Justin Dottavio

PALO ALTO, CA - SEPTEMBER 23: Head coach David Shaw of the Stanford Cardinal looks on while his team warms up prior to playing the UCLA Bruins in a NCAA football game at Stanford Stadium on September 23, 2017 in Palo Alto, California. (Photo by Thearon W. Henderson/Getty Images)
PALO ALTO, CA - SEPTEMBER 23: Head coach David Shaw of the Stanford Cardinal looks on while his team warms up prior to playing the UCLA Bruins in a NCAA football game at Stanford Stadium on September 23, 2017 in Palo Alto, California. (Photo by Thearon W. Henderson/Getty Images) /
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2. Georgia is winning 2019, too

Kirby Smart learned all the bagman tricks he could from his near decade long tenure under Nick Saban at Alabama. Tuscaloosa is known for pulling top prospects from all over the country and loading up four-stars on top of five-stars to create one of the most dominant, and NFL Combine invited rosters in college football.

The Bulldogs are replicating all that the Alabama Crimson Tide had started once Saban arrived in 2007. Saban won his first BCS national championship in 2009 and Smart has now been the College Football Playoff runner-up in only year two in Athens, GA.

If Smart can really pull back-to-back top rated recruiting classes to Athens, GA there will be no excuse besides poor deployment or development for why the Bulldogs of Georgia aren’t national champions for the first time since the 1980 season.

Georgia’s top-rated 2019 class is led by five-star Georgia wide receiver Jadon Haselwood. Their second ranked player is the previously mentioned Nolan Smith, the defensive end out of IMG. Smith is joined by Georgia native and five-star wide receiver Dominick Blaylock and Georgia native and four-star cornerback Jalen Perry.

Former UGA Bulldogs head football coach and current Miami Hurricanes head coach Mark Richt is sliding in at number two in the recruiting rankings for the 2019 signing classes. Richt is great at pulling top rated quarterbacks, running backs, and linebackers as evident from his Bulldogs teams of old. Richt is pulling wide receiver Brieon Fuller a four-star from Florida to join his 2017 and 2017 quarterback haul.

Not just Georgia

The ‘Canes are also receiving a verbal from Denzel Daxon, a three-star defensive tackle, Renato Brown a three-star offensive tackle and Diamante Howard a three-star linebacker from Miami-Southridge. The Southridge Spartans have produced many top prospects over the past two decades including Heisman Trophy candidate Troy Davis and his brother Darren Davis who both signed with Iowa State in the 90’s.

The third ranked class of early 2019 are the Wisconsin Badgers. The Badgers have had immense success over the last decade under a slew of different coaches but the style has remained the same. The Badgers are going to out size and strength opponents while playing tenacious defense and winning the field position battle.

Of the Badgers’ top four prospects not one is from the state of Wisconsin. The Badgers are pulling Logan Brown a four-star offensive tackle from Michigan, Joe Tippmann a four-star offensive tackle from Indiana, Graham Mertz a four-star quarterback from Kansas, and Hayden Rucci a four-star tight end from PA.

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