Blake Baumgartner, ESPN Personnel Scribbler
Then finishing his legitimate talk over with, five-star linebacker Sammy Brown, the top-ranked within linebacker within the 2024 cycle, dedicated to Clemson on Monday.
Brown, No. 17 overall in the 2024 ESPN 300 and a made from Jefferson Prime (Georgia), turns into the highest-ranked member of the Tigers’ elegance, which sits at Negative. 15 by means of ESPN.
“It was just connecting with some of the players and some of the other commits and with the coaches,” Brown informed ESPN upcoming making the announcement on social media. “I felt like everything just kind of clicked and I have very similar personalities to some of the commits. Drew Woodaz, the other linebacker commit, I just feel like we’re very similar in the way we do stuff. So I just feel like everything kind of fell into place perfectly and that was just kind of a sign to me that it was God’s will to go there.”
The 6-foot-2, 230-pound Brown took an legitimate talk over with to Tennessee all over the latter date of Would possibly and has canceled plans to jerk legitimate visits to Georgia, Oklahoma and Ohio Shape nearest in June.
Brown’s presen in Clemson this age weekend made an indelible influence. Dabo Swinney and the Tigers have 5 alternative ESPN 300 possibilities in its 2024 elegance — tight finish Christian Bentancur (Negative. 124 total), cornerback Tavoy Feagin (Negative. 233 total), protection Noah Dixon (Negative. 248 total), defensive take on Hevin Brown-Shuler (Negative. 249 total) and defensive take on Champ Thompson (Negative. 285 total).
Brown will be the highest-ranked linebacker Clemson has signed since Jeremiah Trotter Jr (Negative. 7 total and Negative. 1 OLB) in 2021 and the 6th ESPN 300 linebacker to signal with this system since 2020 (Trenton Simpson, Sergio Allen, Trotter Jr, Barrett Carter and Jamal Anderson Jr.).
“James Skalski and Baylon Spector — those are two kids that played the linebacker position the right way,” Brown stated. “They weren’t super highly ranked. But they came into Clemson and got developed and came out being superstars. So I think Clemson does a great job of developing linebackers and creating very, very refined and skilled linebackers. So they definitely do things the right way.”
Underneath each longtime former defensive coordinator Brent Venables and tide defensive coordinator Wes Goodwin, the Tigers’ protection has advanced a name for being one of the crucial best possible within the nation. 5 instances since 2016, they have got completed within the height 10 in general protection (2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2021).
“I really like what they do on defense and I think that if Barrett Carter and Jeremiah Trotter leave next year, I’ll have a good shot to go in and compete for some playing time,” Brown stated. “So I think, just like I said, everything kind of fell into place. … They’ve got a good scheme and Coach Goodwin is very aggressive with the linebackers. We get to blitz a lot, so it’ll be a really, really fun scheme to play in.”
Brown will be the 5th five-star probability to signal with the Tigers since 2020 (defensive take on Bryan Bresee; 2020, defensive finish Myles Murphy; 2020, Trotter Jr; 2021 and defensive take on Peter Timbers; 2023).
Brown performs each tactics for Jefferson Prime Faculty and had a dynamic juvenile season in 2022 by means of recording 113 tackles generation additionally compiling 1,705 general yards (1,459 speeding) and 24 touchdowns (21 speeding).
Clemson’s latter 4 recruiting categories completed eleventh (2023), 14th (2022), 4th (2021) and 1st (2020).
