Weeks in the past, College of Colorado head coach Deion Sanders vowed to repair the workforce’s porous offensive line.
Sanders made good on that promise in lower than every week, touchdown 5 offensive line transfers and securing three verbal commitments from 2024 recruits, together with Jordan Seaton, a five-star offensive tackle who’s the No. 1-ranked offensive lineman and No. 16 general participant within the nation based on the 247Sports composite rankings.
Sanders acquired high quality as a lot as amount in his OL transfers. He added four-star guard Tyler Johnson from Houston, a Third Group All-AAC choice final season, plus three-star inside offensive linemen Justin Mayers from UTEP, an All-Convention USA honorable point out final season. Colorado additionally added Khalil Benson from Indiana and Yakiri Walker from Connecticut, in addition to three-star deal with Amari Ward from Jackson State.
Along with Seaton, CU additionally obtained commitments from three-star Miami native Issiah Walker Jr., the No. 3-ranked offensive deal with and No. 31 general JUCO participant within the nation, and three-star deal with Gavin Layton, the No. 7-ranked offensive deal with and No. 49 general JUCO participant within the nation.
All have transferred or dedicated to Colorado since Dec. 5. Sanders just lately acknowledged his plans to be aggressive in utilizing the switch portal to improve his offensive line for 2024.
“If you watched us play, what did you say? ‘Oh boy, if they only had some safety for Shedeur, or if they might simply get after that passer, oh, they’d be [great],’” Sanders told 247Sports. “We acquired to handle that within the portal and from the highschool rankings. You bought to grasp, highschool to me is like draft decisions within the NFL, the portal is free company. And I am grateful that we’ve got and we could have the wherewithal to go get what we’d like.”
The inflow of linemen comes on the heels of an nameless coach telling The Athletic “there’s no method in hell” Sanders may get a brand new offensive line to dam for quarterback Shedeur Sanders, who was sacked 52 instances in 11 video games. He was sacked three or extra instances in each recreation, together with three video games with seven sacks.