Tompkins blew his knee after he committed and they kept him. HS coach can't say enough good things about him, IIRC the coach had said there was a 5* kid on their team and Tompkins was better than him, and he would be rated higher if he hadn't popped his knee. I guess upside is if you've blown two knees they should be stronger than they were before?Probably my mistake, but I seemed to read article after article about this player who was recovering from a knee injury, and that player who sat out their senior season due to injury and this other player who also had some kind of injury. In my mind it was like, HS player gets injured, Nebraska offers type thing, or was it last year's class? If so, I'm just getting old then.
Henrich is an Omaha 4* ILB who hurt his knee late in the year, no way were they backing off of him and for good reason. If you haven't watched his film, you need to. He beats blocks like he's invisible, it will remind of Lavonte David the way he just laughs off attempts to block him and missiles kids.
Bivens is the other and sounds like they only go after him if Mills can't make grades.
Martinez didn't play his senior year, that worked out OK. This staff seems to do well at getting kids to reach their potential. They had several breakout players at UCF and they built enough momentum there for them to go unbeaten again this year.
Agree on the OL grade being too harsh. They got a top JUCO OL in Bland to commit, it's not Austin's fault he didn't work hard enough in the classroom.
