DB Tayegan Briskey, 6-1, 180, West Boca Raton HS/Florida
DB David Brown III, 6-1, 162, Cypress Woods HS/Texas
QB Jack Cannon, 6-2, 210, Holmdel HS/New Jersey
DB/WR George Duggins, 6-3, 200, Mona Shores HS/ Michigan
RB/DB Jacob Henry, 5-11, 190, Maumelle HS/Arkansas
DL/TE Will Maloof, 6-5, 210, St. Peter's Prep/New Jersey
OL Brody McLeod, 6-4, 280, Ponte Vedra HS/Florida
OL Mikey McMahon, 6-4, 290, Bergen Catholic HS/New Jersey
OT Yuseph Mustafa, 6-4, 260, Dearborn HS/Michigan
OL Jake Namnum, 6-2, 292, St. Josephs Prep/Pennsylvania
OL Nick Schenkel, 6-4, 270, Liberty HS/Pennsylvania
And here’s the still incomplete list of players who will be arriving this August, arranged by position:
OFFENSE
Quarterback
Jaden Cummings, 6-0, 185, Summerville HS/South Carolina
Charlie Peters, 6-2, 210, Jesuit HS/Texas
Running Back
Myles Craddock, 55-11, 200, Phillips Exeter/Rhode Island
Immanuel Johnson, 5-10, 198, Hammond HS/South Carolina
Wide Receiver
Cameron Bates, 6-2, 190, Grayslake North HS/Grayslake, Illinois
Aiden Abercombie, 6-1, 173, Fort Worth Christian HS/Texas
Santino Cicarella 6-2, 175, University Liggett HS/Michigan
Andrew Smart, 6-3, 185, Arapahoe HS/Colorado
Tight End
John Bancone, 6-5, 220, Phillips Andover/New Jersey
Jason Bish, 6-4½, 220 Daniel HS/South Carolina
Corban Hall, 6-3, 224, Charlotte Christian/North Carolina
Mateusz Nycz, 6-5, 255, Marmion Academy/Illinois
Offensive Line
Paul Binder, 6-6, 280, Londonderry HS/New Hampshire
Yuseph Mustafa, 6-4, 260, Dearborn HS/Michigan
Hashem Saleh, Crestwood HS/Michigan
DEFENSE
Line
Peter Owolabi, 6-3, 272, Asheville School (N.C.)/Ottawa, Ont.
Ayomide Adeniyi, 6-3, 230, Oakland Mills HS/Maryland
Matisse Brosseau, 6-3, 225, Choate Rosemary Hall/Montreal, QC
Chris Chol, 6-foot-5, 230 pounds, Proctor Adademy/Massachusetts
Linebacker
Charlie Prior, 6-3, 205, Loyola Academy/Illinois
Defensive Back
Matthew Boydell, 6-2, 200, Northern Highlands HS/New Jersey
Jackson Cheatham, 5-10, 165, Gilman School/Maryland
Ethan Couvertiere, 6-2, 180, Bearen HS/Tennessee
Johnny Stephens, 6-1, 175, Berkshire School/Georgia
Colter Vela, 5-10, 170, North. Forsyth HS/Georgia
Green Alert Take: Neither list is official. For some reason, the list of this fall’s incoming players has yet to be released. That being the case, corrections and additions are not just welcomed, but encouraged. The list of rising high school seniors cannot be released until next spring.
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The Athletic has a story headlined AI is coming to the NFL, and it could transform the game that features former walk-on running back Ryan Paganetti ’14, whose Big Green career ended early because of injury. Paganetti, an economics major who interned with the Dallas Cowboys, was an analyst with the Philadelphia Eagles for six years and then spent three seasons with the Jacksonville Jaguars, is now the “head coach research specialist,” for Pete Carroll with the Las Vegas Raiders. From The Athletic (LINK):
Ryan Paganetti got his job in part because of artificial intelligence. He was hired by Las Vegas Raiders head coach Pete Carroll in March as the team’s “Head Coach Research Specialist,” but the job may be better understood as AI coordinator.
“I don’t think when I was hired the idea was, ‘This is our AI guy,’ but there is no doubt whatsoever that I am going to be using AI every single day,” he said. “And probably in increasingly larger amounts every month that goes by.”
Paganetti told The Athletic:
“I feel pretty confident saying some team is going to win a Super Bowl in the next few years utilizing AI at a very high rate, significantly higher than it has ever been used before. It’s really an opportunity to differentiate yourself from a team that might have a more talented roster or better coaches or whatnot. There is going to be more and more separation with teams that are bought in.”
And . . .
“There’s still an extreme level of secrecy. Even people who work in analytics have very little idea what people working in analytics for other teams do sometimes because it’s considered company secrets. We know what the scouts do on the other team: They scout. We know what the coaches do on the other teams: They coach. But when it comes to the actual contribution of the analytics department of another team, it’s really open-ended.”
And . . .
“With things like, ‘What play should you run against this look? What blitz should you run against this alignment?’ — those are areas where AI can really move the needle or come up with ideas that you might otherwise never have thought of.”
If you can’t access the story, the Trojans Wire has a piece that mentions Paganetti, and has a little of the same information HERE.
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EXTRA POINT
It’s summer and ice cream stands are doing big business. So please tell me why, when the season is so short, one of the places we tried after dinner last night closed at 4 p.m., and that wasn’t a one-off? On a Saturday in the summer! I mean, seriously?
Isn’t it bad enough that our local drive-in theater didn’t open this summer?
