ESPN.com’s Todd McShay has left tackles Sam Baker (Southern Cal) and Jeff Otah (Pitt) going 20th and 23rd, respectively, in his mock draft, but Mayock said either might be available when the Dolphins pick first in Round 2.
Three front-office men independently mentioned Pittsburgh’s Joe Clermond as a player who helped himself. Clermond played as a down end for Dave Wannstedt, but several NFL teams wanted to see if he could play outside linebacker in a 3-4. The early results were encouraging.
Plenty of time for them to rise and fall on mock drafts.
I don’t know where else he’s going to look, and I don’t know if he simply decided the numbers weren’t favorable for getting out on the field. Still A.J. Alexander has decided to keep looking some more.
The Panthers didn’t expect their coaching staff changes to have an adverse effect on recruiting, but Alexander had second thoughts after wide receivers coach Aubrey Hill left Friday for the same job at Miami.
Hill wasn’t the primary recruiter for the 5-foot-10, 180-pound Alexander, but he was expected to be his position coach. When Alexander told Pitt coaches he was considering visiting other schools, they warned him that his scholarship offer would be withdrawn if he did.
Pitt already has three receiver recruits in Aliquippa U.S. Army All-American Jonathan Baldwin, Gateway’s Cameron Saddler and Norwin’s Mike Shanahan, and the Panthers also are recruiting Muhlenberg’s Vaughn Carraway.
Keep in mind, that the offer was withdrawn, to Mike Cruz as well. They continued to recruit him and he eventually verballed.
I take the withdrawal to mean Pitt isn’t promising to hold his offer — not that they won’t be willing to accept him unless they get other verbals before he makes up his mind.
