S Chris Young verbally committed to the Oregon State football team over the weekend, according to Rivals.com.
He’s a 6-foot-2, 220-pound, three-star athlete out of Arizona Western College with three seasons to play two. Young chose the Beavers over offers from Indiana and Washington State.
Young is from Auburn, Wash., and was rated a four-star athlete by Scout.com. He singed with Washington out of Auburn High.
JC Grid-Wire named him a Junior College All-American and he was named the National Junior College Athletic Association’s Defensive Player of the Year. Young is known for his hard hitting and instincts.
The Beavers are up to 24 potential athletes in the 2012 recruiting class, and eight DBs. However, two are soft verbals and may go elsewhere and Young may move to OLB with his hitting ability.
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The soft verbals
Four-star DB Devian Shelton is still committed to the Beavers after visiting Washington over the weekend, according to ESPN. Shelton plans to still visit Tennessee next weekend.
Three-star DB Cleveland Wallace is also still committed to the Beavers after a visit to Boise State. He visited Washington two weeks ago.
Recruiting notes
Also, Rivals.com ranks the OSU recruiting class No. 28 in the nation, seventh in the Pac-12 Conference. That’s pretty high for the Beavers.
The OL recruiting is ranked No. 5 in the country and the DB recruiting is No. 9.
And if you didn’t see this early in the weekend, the Beavers picked up a verbal from a Washington CB here.
11 comments
SG says:
Jan 23, 2012
Where’s the “fallout” in this article? Young committed. Shelton and Wallace still have OSU as their favorites. Looks like a headline to get people to read it to me.
Cliff Kirkpatrick says:
Jan 23, 2012
That’s what headlines are supposed to do.
shane says:
Jan 23, 2012
wallace is a solid commit now
SG says:
Jan 23, 2012
So where’s the fallout then?
OS_Beaver says:
Jan 23, 2012
Really want Shelton as a Beav!
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bbb says:
Jan 23, 2012
lawler (4star WR) and haisk (3 star JC OT) are the ones left that could really help next year.
lawler, if he signs, should play next year. we are deep at WR but wheaton and bishop are gone after next season. need to get the next ones in line on the field.
Haisk, if he signs, would likely compete for a starting OT spot. put him in with Phillips (please be health) and Semeulo and you have 3 potential significant upgrades on the o-line instantly.
RenoNVbeavr says:
Jan 24, 2012
I think OL Gavin Andrews could be an absolute beast. Coupled with Semualo, this could be 2/5 of a very impressive line. Hopefully Josh Andrews and Phillip will continue to improve. RB’s prospects have to be drooling over the potential of this OL, though. A darkhorse to rise out of these OL recruits is Josh Mitchell out of WA. He seemed to stand out on his tenacious blocking and I is a highly regarded wrestler in the state. There is a place for the guy on this roster and should contribute.
bbb says:
Jan 24, 2012
reno-
good stuff. dont sleep on stan haisk if we get him. He was highly sought after out of HS and ended up at UCLA before having grade issues. If he is in camp in the fall he will push for one of the OT spots as well. also dont for get about daryl jackson. kid is huge and has a prototypical nfl OT body. Addie is also another guy cliff was thinking could make some noise this spring. we are going from a vertan laden under sized, under talented group to a talent heavy, good sized young group. the online could possibly be night and day. We also will now have serious depth in the program. great news for Malcom, Jovan, and Chris Brown (who i think will be in the mix if not the starter by week 4).
bbb says:
Jan 24, 2012
Ciff-
With semualo now firm as a beav commit, any word on if he graduates early and enrolls spring term? if he does that i would guess he could start week one.
thanks,
bbb
Cliff Kirkpatrick says:
Jan 24, 2012
Seumalo was always a firm commit.
And I don’t think he’s planning on graduating early.
It’s not like he doesn’t have access to the play book and workout plan.
He had been hanging out at OSU practices since last summer and fall.
Can he start on Day 1? Maybe, but I wouldn’t expect that to happen unless something like injury or transfers happen.
bbb says:
Jan 24, 2012
thanks for the info. i would think he can unseat a couple guys(or at least one). micheal phillip did and that line his frosh year was better than the group we have returning.
i know Cav will make him earn it but with how impressive he was at the underarmor game its likely he is better than at least one of our projected starting OG’s. Not to mention he is a smart kid.
we shall see in the fall