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From the very little I saw of Brahm, he looks like a swing guy. 6'4" and 280ish with quick feet. That sounds like a Tackle, but clearly, he's evaluated as a Guard so that's an option. Still, if the staff doesn't offer, I assume they don't see him that way AND like our chances with other Guards they like more.

Wildly talented and confident players? Yes, you can.

Plus Foster.

cole, that might have helped, but we'd been recruiting undersized LBs for a long time before Alabama established itself as LBU. It seems to me that the change at Bama didn't correspond with a change in Auburn's recruitment of the position; it corresponded with Saban's arrival.

Why/how it happened is because they recruited and developed the position better than anyone in the country from the moment Saban hit campus. It didn't matter whether it was Tubs, Chizik, or Gus piloting our ship. At a certain point, what they do and what we do actually don't have that much to do with the other. The guys Saban inherited, he and Coach Steele developed into better players. Saban's first signing class included Rolando McClain; then, they just kept adding names to the list: Hightower, Upshaw, Johnson, Mosley, Ragland. I don't think it's a negative for a recruit to call them LBU. It's the current reality, and we have to be prepared to recruit against it and sell our own program. Heck, part of our pitch probably is (and should be) that Kevin Steele was the LB coach when they started building the machine. He's the guy that started the development process McClain and Hightower, both of whom started games as true freshmen. We can sell Steele as the guy that knows how to build it, and the guy that will play you right now if you're ready to play.

That's frustrating, but it's also uplifting. He's owning his mistakes and moving forward. That attitude is all you can ever ask of someone. I really hope to see him in orange and blue next year.

Yeah, seems like we weren't the only ones of this guy. With actual offers from Auburn and Alabama, you can expect him to show up big in the next rankings.

At least he has options. I'd feel a lot worse if there was no time for him to shop, and/or he didn't have other legit offers on the table. Arkansas and Kentucky are pretty impressive fall back options.

Size definitely matters, but I've been reassured, time and again, that technique and natural skill can overcome those deficiencies.

Kam Chancellor was listed at 6'3" and 200 pounds when he entered VaTech. Westry won't be wildly smaller than that by fall camp next year. Not saying he's Kam Chancellor, just saying size isn't really a concern on this one.