Active Signing Day for Huskers
This year's National Signing Day looks to be the most intriguing and active day the Huskers have had in Bo Pelini's tenure so far. With at least 5 big time prospects holding press conferences throughout the morning and early afternoon, fans of Husker recruiting will have plenty to keep them busy in order to be up to date with each decision.
Here is a complete run down of the recruiting situation as it is known. Please check back throughout the day for the latest updates.
| Name | Pos | Loc | Ht/Wt | ESPN | 247 | Rivals | Scout | LOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jared Afalava | OLB |
South Jordan, UT Bingham HS |
6'3"/220 | 4*/79 | 4*/93 | 3*/5.7 | 3* | Yes |
| LeRoy Alexander | ATH |
Toledo, OH Whitmer HS |
6'1"/190 | 0*/45 | 2*/75 | 3*/5.6 | 2* | Yes |
| Zaire Anderson | OLB |
Riverside, CA Riverside CC |
6'1"/220 | JC | 3*/87 | 4*/5.8 | 3* | Yes |
| Tommy Armstrong | QB |
Cibolo, TX Byron M. Steele HS |
6'1"/195 | 3*/77 | 3*/86 | 3*/5.7 | 4* | Yes |
| Thomas Brown | OLB |
Gardena, CA Junipero Serra HS |
6'2"/210 | 3*/75 | 3*/88 | 3*/5.6 | 3* | Yes |
| Sam Cotton | TE |
Lincoln, NE Lincoln SE HS |
6'3"/230 | 3*/76 | 3*/81 | 3*/5.5 | 2* | Yes |
| Imani Cross | RB |
Gainsville, GA North Hall HS |
6'0"/222 | 4*/79 | 3*/87 | 3*/5.7 | 3* | Yes |
| Aaron Curry | DT |
Keller, TX Fossil Ridge HS |
6'2"/260 | 3*/78 | 3*/86 | 3*/5.6 | 3* | Yes |
| Greg McMullen | DT |
Akron, OH Archbishop Hoban HS |
6'5"/255 | 3*/79 | 4*/95 | 4*/5.8 | 3* | Yes |
| Alonzo Moore | ATH |
Winnifield, LA Winnifield Sr HS |
6'2"/190 | 3*/52 | 3*/50 | 4*/22 | 3* | Yes |
| Avery Moss | DE |
Tempe, AZ Corona Del Sol HS |
6'3"/240 | 2*/74 | 3*/86 | 3*/5.7 | 3* | Yes |
| Michael Rose | ILB |
Kansas City, MO Rockhurst HS |
6'0"/225 | 4*/80 | 4*/95 | 3*/5.7 | 3* | Yes |
| Mohammed Seisay | CB |
Thatcher, AZ Eastern Arizona College |
6'2"/200 | JC | 4*/93 | 4*/5.9 | 3* | Yes |
| Paul Thurston | OT |
Arvada, CO Arvada West HS |
6'5"/275 | 4*/80 | 4*/92 | 4*/5.8 | 4* | Yes |
| Vincent Valentine | DT |
Edwardsville, IL Edwardsville HS |
6'4"/315 | 3*/79 | 3*/86 | 3*/5.7 | 3* | Yes |
| Jordan Westerkamp | WR |
Lombard, IL Montini HS |
6'1"/185 | 3*/79 | 4*/90 | 4*/5.8 | 4* | Yes |
| Corey Whitaker | OT |
Murrieta, CA Vista Murrieta HS |
6'4"/250 | 0*/45 | 3*/83 | 3*/5.5 | 2* | Yes |
Click on each rating entry to view breakdowns of each player from the national recruiting sources.
The recruits with decisions to make are expected to hold press conferences at the following times:
- Aaron Curry - 7:45am - update 8:00am - Curry is "N"!
- Alonzo Moore - 9am - update 9:30am - Moore is "N"!
- Devian Shelton - 11am - update 11:30am - Shelton selects USC
- Andrus Peat - 12:35pm - update 12:45pm - Peat selects Stanford
- Vincent Valentine - 1pm - update 1:15pm - Valentine is "N"!
Bo Pelini's press conference to announce the class is at 2:30 this afternoon.
Kansas City, MO
2/1/2012
From the athletic department: LOI’s coming soon!
Kansas City, MO
2/1/2012
The unwavering commit since July of 2010, Michael Rose has signed his LOI. Under Armor bowl player, ESPN top 150 prospect, had 104 tackles and 3 sacks last season.
2/1/2012
How fitting that Rose was the first one to sign. Class act, that kid, sticking with his pledge to NU for more than 18 months.
2/1/2012
Aaron Curry picked NU over Iowa. That’s a great “early” win for the Huskers on signing day. They needed a DT. Getting Curry demonstrates what a good relationship that the new d-line coach brought with him from Iowa.
Beating a B1G school straight up for a player is like winning twice - one for NU, and one NOT for them.
2/1/2012
Rich K gets to count Curry as his first commit!
2/1/2012
Alonzo Moore is a Husker!
NC, USA
2/1/2012
Corey Whitaker is N!
http://twitter.com/#!/Huskers/status/164732527242788865
NC, USA
2/1/2012
er…Corey’s link is here: http://twitter.com/#!/Huskers/status/164732219087261696
KC, MO
2/1/2012
One suggestion is to sort your table of commits. Maybe by stars or position or order of signing or at least alphabetical?
Also, so far so good with the recruiting! Let’s hope the remaining are all “N”!
Kansas City, MO
2/1/2012
Sory Isaac, it was sorted at the beginning of the day, but things started happening so fast that I couldn’t keep up. I’ll get a chance to refresh it in about an hour.
NC, USA
2/1/2012
Jared Afalava is N! https://twitter.com/#!/Huskers/status/164745699253174272
NC, USA
2/1/2012
Alonzo Moore is N! https://twitter.com/#!/Huskers/status/164746301299363840
NC, USA
2/1/2012
HOLY CRAP….we’re actually getting them ALL!
NC, USA
2/1/2012
Tom, where did you get confirmation on Moss, Anderson and McMullen?
Kansas City, MO
2/1/2012
Scout indicates they’ve all signed their LOI’s.
NC, USA
2/1/2012
huskers.com just reported Z Anderson is N! https://twitter.com/#!/Huskers/status/164757295077662721
NC, USA
2/1/2012
Greg McMullen is officially a Husker now with his LOI just coming through!
https://twitter.com/#!/Huskers/status/164758468509696000
NC, USA
2/1/2012
Devian Shelton went to USC :( Too bad. I wish him luck trying to get into the starting lineup…they have some good corners there.
2/1/2012
NU could have *really* used Shelton on the roster. Now I fear they will only have one corner in this class (Seisay) and they needed two, preferably three.
NC, USA
2/1/2012
Still could get Charles Jackson qualified for that too Darren…so all is not completely lost. Also, some of our existing corners might step up this year.
2/1/2012
I like the diversity of the players, as in relation to all of the different parts of the country they come from. That’s recruiting nationally.
2/1/2012
Love the class , any more and its its just adding the cherry to top of the sundae… would have liked to add another DB to the class, but I think we have a lot of talent aready on board in our youngsters.. Charles Jackson, lets get that classroom stuff done , were looking forward to seeing you in a helmet with a beautiful red N on it ..
Peat , Valentine, and any others jump on board while the trains still in the station..
Either way I wish them all well, Good luck boys.. and GO BIG RED!!
2/1/2012
dkdevine - I hear ya. NU not only would like to get Jackson on the field, the NEED him on the field.
They could have used him this season, they need him desperately this season and moving forward.
But - based on the track record thus far - I’m not about to count that chicken until it has slowly, slowly, painfully slowly hatched.
2/1/2012
Sounds like Stanford got a good recruit! :(
NC, USA
2/1/2012
Peat went to Stanford :(
Kansas City, MO
2/1/2012
Peat’s selected Stanford.
2/1/2012
I figured Peat was a Stanford man several days ago. Though it would of been nice to have as a husker. This years recruiting class appears to be a good class even though it will be a smaller class. We’ll miss a few recruits that we wanted but overall we did good.
We are already making in roads for the 2013 class and that is good because if we can get these players early out that should help in our recruiting.
2/1/2012
VV is reported as ‘N’, per Rivals and the JournalStar.
2/1/2012
VV added helps alot .. Im really happy with class.. PEat would have been a hell of a get, but after we started recruiting Goodman again last week , I figured the writing was on the wall.. Vincent was our top DT on the board to start the season , and the coaches saw it all the way through.. He had offers from everyone , ALabama, Florida, Ohio State, Illionois, Notre Dame and he chose NU,.. Good Final pick up for the skers.. Who knows maybe we offer Sebastian Smith or pick up another DB recruit.. Also Moore could be looked at as WR, QB or DB so thats a great prospect to have on campus..
2/1/2012
Now we can wait and see what CBs Raymond Ford and Anthony Standifer do.
2/1/2012
So we still have a couple spots to fill?
2/1/2012
We have 1 scholarship for sure, but I don’t know if they are saving it for Charles Jackson.. Also we can add up to 3 extra players on signing day, per Big Ten rules, over what we believe to have in scholarships.. 18 is the number but I believe we can get up to 21 recruits in this class, but we had to let the Big Ten conference know if we were oversiging before .. and what the reasons were..
2/1/2012
From the sounds of it we could go as high as 21 this year. We’re sitting at 16 right now without confirmation on Avery Moss. That puts us at 17 (with him) and 18 if Charles Jackson can get in.
2/1/2012
David
I believe Raymond Ford was last known to be deciding between UTah , Washington State, and Cal but who knows things change on signing day.. Especially when a teammate is signing with Nu..
Standifer was said to maybe be taking visits after signing day , so who knows with him..
And Its to bad USC came in late for shelton.. it was between us and Washington until then.. Cant blame the kid for wanting to play in his back yard.. Good Luck to both the recruits that chose NU and those that decided to go else where,,
2/1/2012
twauto,
Ford went with Cal
2/1/2012
twauto22-
I heard the same about Ford as well but word was his family was pushing for Nebraska since his cousin (Thenarse) was “N”. I’d like to see the kid on campus if we can’t get Charles Jackson. Granted Jackson would be preferred over any current target.
You can’t not like stealing from a (new) rival, Michigan. :)
Can’t blame the kid for that. USC is a great program and has done well with DBs. I’m sure until USC came in it was Nebraska.
2/13/2012
That sulhod read:You cannot be a Husker fanand boo your own team. Tome, it is that simple.