After signing on the dotted line to become a member of the Texas Longhorns yesterday, Copperas Cove offensive tackle JP Urquidez had a quick message for the burnt orange nation:

The former Baylor signee became the 26th member of what’s now become a 27-man recruiting class, which is good for the No. 8-ranked class in the nation, per the 247Sports Composite team rankings.

The 6’5.5, 300-pound four-star lineman ranks as the No. 22 offensive tackle in the country and No. 27 player in Texas.

Position: OG
Height: 6’4″
Weight: 300
Year: Sophomore
Hometown: Fredericksburg, VA

After coming to Virginia as a heralded four-star recruit according to ESPN.com, Rivals.com, Scout.com, and 247Sports.com, Steven Moss hasn’t been able to find the field for the Cavaliers. After redshirting in 2014, he didn’t appear in any games during the 2015 season.

Moss is a road paver suited very well for run blocking. Robert Anae isn’t likely to run a “punch you in the mouth” run heavy offense, but Moss did play some offensive tackle in high school meaning he can be versatile if need be.

He’ll be competing with Jack McDonald and Sean Karl, who both have significant more game experience over the last three years than Moss has. Obviously he has the raw talent as evidenced by the lofty recruiting ranking and an offer list that included Florida State, Auburn, Tennessee, Oklahoma, Clemson, and Virginia Tech. Given the thin status of the Virginia offensive line, the Hoos are going to need Moss to realize his potential and step in to a contributor’s role.

Markquese Bell, a 2017 four-star athlete, has told Maize n Brew that Michigan will make his Top 13, which Bell will release on Sunday or Monday.

2017 4⭐️ ATH Markquese Bell told @MaizenBrew that he will include Michigan in his Top 13. Bell will release the list on Sunday or Monday.

— Evan Petzold (@EvanPetzold) June 25, 2016

“Michigan was one of the schools that had an early interest in me and the coaching staff is very good,” Bell said. “It would be exciting [to play for Jim Harbaugh], especially competing with some of the nation’s best at practice.”

The 6-foot-3, 195-pound athlete from Bridgeton High School in Bridgeton, New Jersey primarily plays wide receiver, free safety, and cornerback. He has great ball skills, is aggressive and is a leader on and off the field.

Bell told Maize n Brew that Clemson is the clear-cut leader in his recruitment process. He has offers from Michigan, Rutgers, Boston College, Clemson, Florida, Georgia, Georgia Tech, Kentucky, Maryland, North Carolina, Ohio State, Old Dominion, Ole Miss, Penn State, Temple, Virginia Tech, Wake Forest and Wisconsin. Bell was recruited to Michigan by Chris Partridge.

2017 4⭐️ ATH Markquese Bell has told @MaizenBrew that Clemson is the leader in his recruitment.

— Evan Petzold (@EvanPetzold) June 25, 2016

“I loved Clemson when I was down there,” he said. “Everyone was nice, not only the players and coaches but the people that lived there. The campus is beautiful and it is a family aspect.”

When asked if he would commit before National Signing Day, Bell said, “I was thinking about doing it on signing day, but if I know before then, then probably. I just do not want to rush.”

If there’s another position coach in the nation that has earned his paycheck more than Dameyune Craig since he joined the staff in February, I would love to know. After fighting off Alabama for five-star receiver Stephen Guidry a little over a month ago, he followed it up with a surprise commit from four-star Mannie Netherly earlier this week. That hot streak continued with a commitment from another four-star receiver in Jhamon Ausbon following a very successful trip to Baton Rogue the previous weekend.

What Ausbon Brings to LSU

(Hit Mute, just trust me)

At 6-2.5 and 217 pounds, Ausbon is a unique style of receiver that is becoming more uncommon recently due to his physical stature and dominant size. You can see he already knows how to use his frame to box out smaller corners. He then has enough speed to separate himself from the pack and win a foot race to the end zone. Ausbon will be a nice change of pace in the wide receiver department in the mold of an Anquan Boldin, a solid possession receiver but can be a deep threat on mismatches as well.

The commitment of Ausbon should put LSU into the top five in the class rankings and puts the Tigers in a great spot to make a run as the start of the college football season inches closer. Everyone was praising the new additions to this coaching staff in the off-season, and Craig is already paying huge dividends on the recruiting front.

The 2017 recruiting class just got a little bit bigger again, tonight, with the commitment of 2017 Place Kicker Anders Carlson.

This one is really keeping it in the family, as his brother is Auburn starting place kicker – and holder of a few Auburn records – Daniel Carlson. Anders’s height is listed at 6’3 on 247Sports, but he’s listed at 6’5 on Kohl’s Kicking Academy’s site, and their profile of him says he’s 6’4. Sooo… who knows how tall he is? Either way, it sounds like he’s a lot like his older brother.

Carlson, like his brother, attends The Classical Academy. He’s the #2 place kicker in the country according to Kohl’s Kicking Academy. This is what they have to say about him:

Carlson is superior athlete that will be a D1 specialist just like his older brother Daniel. Daniel is an NFL prospect and Anders is just as athletic at this point his development. Anders has attended multiple Kohl’s events over the years. In May of 2016 he proved he is going to be special by hitting two 85 yard KO’s and making 9 of 10 FG in the charting phase of camp. His consistency has improved and he was a weapon for his HS team last season. Carlson can also punt and with his 6’4 frame he has huge upside as a k or p!

So, we obviously don’t want him to have to perform dual-duty as his brother did last season. There’s always a chance that his brother goes pro after his junior year and Anders steps right in. If not, I would suspect Anders will compete for the starting punting job in year one.

HIGHLIGHTS

Here he is kicking some long-distance shots. He’s got a Damon Duval right-to-left draw on his kicks (or maybe that’s wind), but he can definitely boom it. I like it.

THE CLASS

Carlson, as a kicker, is currently unranked by the major recruiting services. So it’s hard to say what his commitment would do to the class in the rankings system. I don’t really care about that, though. The people who know kickers have him ranked 2nd in the nation, and if he’s anything like his brother, then Auburn is well set at the kicking position for at least the next 3-4 years, if not the next 4-5.

The Washington State Cougars added their second offensive line commit to their 2017 class today when George Moore out of the College of San Mateo tweeted that he had accepted the program’s scholarship offer.

Not a whole lot is known about Moore. He was a class of 2014 recruit out of Deer Park High School in Antioch, California — a two-star kid with precisely one recruiting story that I could find: From November 2013 in which he reported some big programs (including WSU) sniffing around but not yet offering.

He made his way to College of San Mateo, but that’s where it gets a little fuzzy. Cougfan is reporting ($) he took a redshirt last season that was medical in nature, and he’s expected to have three years to play three seasons after he graduates in December and arrives at WSU in January. But the only way the math works on that is if he either A) wasn’t enrolled at CSM in 2014, taking a year off from school, or B) He sat out each of the last two seasons with injuries — in order to receive a medical hardship waiver that extends a player’s clock to a sixth year (which is what it would be in this case), he’d need to have missed both 2014 and 2015 for reasons outside his control. He was listed as a freshman on CSM’s roster in 2015, but that doesn’t even tell us much, since the roster doesn’t denote any redshirts, and there would certainly seem to be at least some.

So … who knows.

Moore does seem to fit the mold of a WSU lineman — his Hudl page lists him at 6-foot-7 and 308 pounds, which is a significant increase over his high school measurements of 6-4 and 285 pounds. And if you’re tempted to think “well yeah he got fatter while sitting out” … check out the pic with his commitment. He does not look pudgy, and whether it’s camera angle or whatever, he looks all of 6-7:

There are only a few spring practice highlights available on a Hudl page with his name on it, but he’s supposed to be No. 70, and … yeah, I can’t even figure it out. You can try!

Moore is the eighth commitment in the 2017 class and second offensive lineman, joining Dontae Powell. The rest of the class is listed below:

Thanks to some recent Alabama commitments, Ohio State lost their grip on the top recruiting class in the country. Now, they’ve grabbed it back, thanks to a massive reinforcement from an unlikely place.

Wyatt Davis, the top ranked guard in the country, and a five-star prospect, has committed to Ohio State, per multiple reports.

Mike Guardabascio, prep sports editor at the Press-Telegram captured the moment when Davis committed:

It wouldn’t be a huge commitment without the requisite BOOM as well:

The 6’5, 310 pound Davis, from Bellflower, CA, picked Ohio State over virtually every top program in the country. He was being pursued especially hard by Notre Dame, UCLA and Alabama, although he also reported offers from Michigan, and a slew of Pac-12 and SEC programs. He is listed as the 14th best recruit in the country, and the 5th best player in California, per 247 Sports.

Davis gives the Buckeyes a truly amazing offensive line recruiting class, as Ohio State already secured the commitment of Josh Meyers, a five-star recruit who is listed as the top tackle in the country. They also have four-star Jake Moretti, a top 60 prospect at tackle from Colorado. This threesome should give Ohio State’s offensive line a powerful foundation for years to come.

Our analyst, Christopher Jason, had a closer look at his tape. Here’s what he thinks:

Wyatt Davis is a grown man, standing at 6’5” and 310 lbs as the No. 1 ranked guard on 247’s Composite Rankings. Davis is a physical, throwback lineman with a high football IQ, who excels as both a run and pass blocker. He primarily played left tackle his junior year, but he will almost certainly play guard in Columbus.

Davis is an exciting prospect to watch as a run blocker, as he mauls good competition while playing for powerhouse St. John Bosco in Bellflower, CA. Davis shoots low out of his stance, delivers a violent initial pop to the defender and drives him back to the second level. He keeps his pads lower than his opponent and continuously finishes his blocks with aggression. There’s a good chance that Davis’ opponent is laying on the ground when the whistle blows. When his job is to get to the second level, Wyatt Davis uses his athleticism to get to the second level and stick to the defender. Davis’ blend of size and athleticism is elite, which makes him an excellent run blocker.

When watching Davis’ tape as a pass blocker, it is easy to forget that he is only a junior in high school. Wyatt Davis possesses great footwork, which allows him to get into a strong base and use his long arms to engage in battle. He does a good job of using his arms to keep the defender away from his body and allow space between himself and the pass rusher. His athleticism allows him to move side-to-side with ease and that ability will only help when facing the elite speed rushers of college football. His pass rush technique is excellent for a high school junior and he will only improve next season and even more once he gets to Columbus in 2017.

Overall, Wyatt Davis is a special talent on the offensive line and he is one of the more polished offensive line prospects that Urban Meyer has recruited to Ohio State. Davis’ measurables and his athleticism will allow him to get early playing time for the Buckeyes. Expect him to be a household name and one of the better guards in the Big Ten by the end of his second playing season.

With this commitment, the Buckeyes are back to 14 commitments in the class of 2017. With space at a tight premium, the next few weeks should be interesting, to see which players hop in the boat at wideout, defensive back, and other positions. It’s fair to say, Ohio State’s next commitment should be another elite prospect.

You can see highlights of Davis in action here:

After a quiet period on the recruiting trail, Florida is ramping up its efforts to land commitments as the summer heats up. The Gators got their third this week and second of the day early Friday evening when three-star linebacker Ventrell Miller committed.

pic.twitter.com/1q2xZ9viwW

— Ventrell Miller (@ventrell_miller) June 24, 2016

Miller is a three-star linebacker in the 247Sports Composite and just inside that ranking’s top 600 players nationally. All four major recruiting services see him as a three-star player, as well, and the 6’0″, 220-ish pound linebacker held offers from Miami, Ole Miss, North Carolina, and South Carolina, among others.

There’s not a lot to see on Miller’s short Hudl highlight reel from this spring, but there are things to like. While he is a bit slow out of his stance, it’s an incredibly low one that might get improved by Florida co-defensive coordinator and linebackers coach Randy Shannon, and Miller finds the runner and accelerates quickly towards him on multiple occasions.

The good stuff, however, is in his reel from the 2015 season, which is stashed on YouTube.

If you’re not sold on Miller’s commitment before pressing play, you might be by just 15 seconds in, by which point he’s knifed through a gap to collect one tackle for loss and chased down a runner in the flat for another. And if that’s not enough, he’ll have two more great closes and an excellent read of a crossing route for a pick before the first minute is up.

The current Florida player Miller’s tape most reminds me of is linebacker Jarrad Davis, himself a somewhat underrated high school prospect. Davis, of course, has starred at Florida, and will enter the 2016 season as an All-American candidate and likely first-round pick in the 2017 NFL Draft.

It’s likely that Miller’s commitment is a joint effort from Shannon and defensive backs coach Torrian Gray, a graduate of the same Kathleen High School in Lakeland that Miller attends. A contingent from Kathleen that included Miller and 2019 defensive back Brendan Gant, who already holds offers from Florida and Florida State, camped in Gainesville earlier in June.

And if history is any guide, Miller could be in good company. There was once a Kathleen linebacker who was coached up by Shannon, and he turned out to be a pretty good football player — NFL legend Ray Lewis, in fact.

Miller’s commitment raises Florida’s tally for the day to two, following the commitment of Tampa defensive end Zachary Carter, and its total for the 2017 class to 10. It also lifts the Gators from No. 26 to No. 18 in the 247Composite rankings.