National Signing Day '22

[Dawg Fan]

I know it is still early, but reading the write-ups and looking at the size and positions of Tech's signees has been interesting.

One thing that really jumped out at me is every signee so far is at least 6 feet tall. Tech has had a lot of great players in the sub-6 feet tall category, but height is something you can't teach. No RBs or QBs so far. Every player so far looks good.

[sportdawg]

SIGNEE ROSTER

Cyrus Allen	WR	6-1	180	New Orleans, La.	Landry-Walker HS
Kendrick Rucker	TE	6-5	190	Shreveport, La.	Huntington HS
Zy Ford	LB	6-1	210	Maben, Miss.	East Webster High School
Zyion Claville	WR	6-2	175	Shreveport, La.	Huntington HS
O'Ryan James	WR	6-1	175	Houma, La.	Ellender HS
Keshlon Jackson	WR	6-0	170	Lake Charles, La.	Lake Charles College Prep
Jhamal Shelby Jr.	CB	6-2	180	New Orleans, La.	St. Augustine HS
Isaac Ellis	OL	6-2	319	Monroe, La.	Carroll HS
Buck Buchanan	P/K	5-11	185	Longview, Texas	Marshall HS

[inudesu]

Cleaning up on WRs. I guess if you're going to run some version of an Air Raid, spread-to-pass offense you'll need a lot of them.

[champion110]

I am SO excited to see all those WR's!!!!!

[sportdawg]

Huntington averaged 40 points a game Schedule - Huntington Raiders (Shreveport, LA) Varsity Football 21-22 (maxpreps.com)
That's w/ only scoring 14 against Byrd and 0 against Neville. Their lowest point total in any other game was 28 in playoff loss.

[inudesu]

Probably a little late to go looking this year with the coaching change, but I bet next year we sign another Smoke Harris/Trent Taylor slot guy to balance these bigger guys.

[sportdawg]

@LaTechFBREC has some videos of each signee https://twitter.com/LATechFBREC

[glm47]

Is Lyddy signing elsewhere or just holding off until the Feb signing date?

[inudesu]

Y'all reckon our Buck Buchanan is kin to the Buck Buchanan that played 3 miles away and was so good in the NFL?

They favor a little bit, but you kind of have to squint to see it.

Slightly different position/size too come to think of it.

[inudesu]

Is Lyddy signing elsewhere or just holding off until the Feb signing date?

Today. But not until 2:00 this afternoon.

I wonder if he'll have a row of hats on the table?

[Dawg Fan]

Y'all reckon our Buck Buchanan is kin to the Buck Buchanan that played 3 miles away and was so good in the NFL?

They favor a little bit, but you kind of have to squint to see it.

Slightly different position/size too come to think of it.

I don't know, but he does have his own business making custom duck calls. https://latechsports.com/sports/foot...-buchanan/9605

[sportdawg]

Keshlon Jackson - Football - LA Tech Athletics (latechsports.com)

• Chose LA Tech over Arkansas, Colorado, FAU, Houston, Indiana, Kansas State, UL-Lafayette, Marshall, Memphis, Michigan State, Oklahoma State, Ole Miss, South Alabama, Troy, Tulane, Virginia, Washington State and West Virginia.

[sportdawg]

Jhamal Shelby Jr. - Football - LA Tech Athletics (latechsports.com)

• Chose Tech over Florida State, Mississippi State, Virginia, Tulane and Memphis

[sportdawg]

O'Ryan James - Football - LA Tech Athletics (latechsports.com)

• Chose Tech over Mississippi State, Nicholls State, Southeastern Louisiana, Southern, Tulane, Virginia.

[LEEDAWG]

I do hope that OL Ellis is truly an immediate impact player as I saw mentioned somewhere. Fingers crossed we have other O-Linemen ready to play quality D1 football.
Nice to see a tall receiving TE. Let's actually use a TE like we did back in the Josh Bradley days.

We can worry about defense later.