This is a solid pick up for a coaching staff that can't land quality OL to save their lives (or their jobs). We've discussed this before, but if we're not landing high 4-stars (or 5-stars) like all of our primary rivals seem to do, we need to land quantity and hope that a few of them pan out. We've - at least - brought in a lot of bodies (vs. Butters and Muschamp's failure to bring in enough OLs). We are at a point now that we can start weeding out the 18 & 19 signees if they're not going to get on the field (Simonds & McDowell specifically). Adding this kid with the other two keeps our numbers where they need to be, and hopefully we'll add another one.
Also - anyone listen to the Stadium & Gale recruiting podcast? They said that Hammond and Montgomery will not be in the class - they're not expected to sign in Feb. And now that Gardner signed w/ JSU, he's out. I put the over/under on the remaining 5 at 1.5 earlier in the thread - we're already down 3 of those 5. So the last two are Rucker & Strickland.